Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Price ran through the Western Ave. parking lot, where he was being handcuffed, to Franklin St. Three police officers chased Price and finally captured him in the backyard of a Franklin St. house. In June 1990, Price stood trial for that charge and was acquitted...
Liberals at Yale are quick to point out that, even if such propaganda had any merit, there are hundreds of courses already offered in the study of Western Civilization. President Levin even wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal reminding their editorial staff that he had previously sent them a "list of 78 survey courses covering a span of a century or more of European history, literature, philosophy, religion, art, or music...
Indeed, one proud mother, Mary Ellen Wheeler, wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal offering the fact that her daughter had enrolled in something called the Directed Studies Program at Yale. The official purpose of the program is to "introduce students to the fundamental ideas of Western Civilization" by providing a "firm grounding in the Western tradition." They study the Western canon: Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Goethe, Shakespeare, etc. Even the Bible...
Given this commitment to Western Civilization, President Levin explained that the proposed plan to implement Bass's gift was rejected for the "practical, logistical and nonpolitical reason that it made inefficient use of our resources." With the plethora of courses already available, Levin reasons, new courses and faculty hires specifically for the study of Western Civilization would just be over-kill...
Although logic might be an insidious invention of Western Civilization, we should employ it here. Why on earth would such a popular program be limited in size? Obviously, there are not enough faculty to teach courses in Western Civilization. Yet Bass's gift was designed specifically to remedy this very problem...