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...worse, many experts believe that the battle over what is commonly called multiculturalism is winding down. That is, there is an emerging consensus that every curriculum needs broadening to encompass the cultural experience of women and minorities -- but not at the denigration of D.W.M.s (Dead White Males). Robert Wood, who is Henry Luce professor of Democratic Institutions and the Social Order at Wesleyan University, argues for balance. "In the past five years, we have generally had two counsels on curriculum, and they're both wrong. Allan Bloom ((The Closing of the American Mind)) and others basically say, 'Don't read...
...should colleges do that? Wood has a three-part program. "We've got to teach economics to every student. It conveys a rigor and quantitative skill that all students should understand before they look at political or social institutions. We should require the study of communications, especially visual ones, and not just with some tired old journalist teaching students how the front page is put together. And third, we need to offer real science courses to the non-science student. Most hard scientists tend to belittle non-majors, assuming them to be cognitively inferior. The teachers keep on doing what...
...grey paint on the plywood floor has been worn away where Felix stands. Ranges of bare wood reveal the compass of his days, in front of the edge trimmer, metal fast, heel sander, finishing machine...
TODAY, I am an Asian-American East Asian Studies Concentrator--the proidentity concentration for Harvard Asian Americans--living in Quincy House (I allowed my roommates to place it on our non-ordered choice house lottery form, never realizing that cruel fate would deprive me of wood panelling or sunny suites facing the river...
...church has assumed on the attributes of a Wall Street takeover. An announcement last week that the church plans to cease operation of its ailing Monitor Channel cable network marked a grim defeat for forces within the church organization who have staunchly supported large-scale media expansion. Harvey W. Wood, chairman of the church and chief proponent of the $250 million TV enterprise, resigned last week as the church disclosed that it had borrowed $41.5 million from pension funds to shore up the 24-hour news and public affairs channel as well as the troubled daily, Christian Science Monitor...