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Among the people saying these things is James Weinstein, wealthy author and publisher, who two weeks ago began a new socialist newspaper called In These Times. Over the years Weinstein has invested his editorial talents and considerable capital in various anti-capitalist publications, including Studies on the Left and the intellectual monthly Socialist Revolution...
Many students have the impression that the faculty doesn't care what they think and that professors just want a student to give a "correct" response. Weinstein said that actually the opposite may be true. Before starting up the Writing Center, he asked 12 members of the faculty what their expectations were for students' papers. Most of them said they wished students would put more of themselves into their writing. "The faculty wanted to see more passion," Weinstein said. "It is really a shame that students think otherwise...
...explain exactly what goes on at the Writing Center, Weinstein gave the example of the undergraduate who came in hoping to clarify her thoughts for a paper about de Tocqueville. As with most of the students who come to the center, she didn't appear with a draft in hand. She was having trouble getting started. Weinstein suggested that she take a desk outside the office and "think the question through on paper." To explain what he meant, he posed another question for himself and demonstrated. The staff, Weinstein said, will never actually do any of the work on students...
...Weinstein said he was not alarmed by the Newsweek cover story, "Why Johnny Can't Write," that caused such a furor in educational circles last winter. He disagreed with Newsweek's thesis that students' writing troubles are worse now than ever before, and pointed to a series of articles from previous eras to prove his point: a 1961 article in Look also titled "Why Johnny Can't Write," a report entitled "General Education for a Free Society," which in 1945 expressed precisely the same sentiments as the Newsweek story; and a 1912 issue of the English Journal which also described...
...Weinstein is not particularly worried about Johnny, at least not the Johnny at Harvard. For the most part he just needs help getting started. Now, as for Zonker, that's another matter...