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Multiculturalism is one of the most politically charged and ubiquitous buzzwords bandied about in academia today. The underlying concept represents the attempt to weave a social fabric more just than the one we now wear. Unfortunately, current efforts to establish a more diverse curriculum will only produce a more ethnically charged and divisive atmosphere...
Critics of agreements between academia and the corporate world have charged that outside money forces researchers to pursue only subjects that benefit business interests...
Schoenhof's due to its pleasant atmosphere, interesting books, and frequent discounts, has a dedicated clientele outside of academia. The staff is friendly and helpful, always willing to turn a bookshelf inside-our to find that slim and elusive book which insists on hiding behind some heavy hardcover. As Cambridge resident Marco Calahonra, a native of Argentina, says, "It is the only place where I can find books in my language. They are more expensive than they would be in Buenos Aires, but the prices are not bad and the selection is very good...
...Clinton's offer to be U.S. Ambassador to China. Aspin wants to remain active in the Washington scene, and he's mulling over another job Clinton has proposed to him: head of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. What would please Aspin most, though, is a job in academia, preferably as a university president...
...administration's underhandedness has put such a bitter taste in my mouth that I wonder if they shouldn't award an anti-Ford Foundation Grant to discourage undergraduates from entering academia. Various deans and committees have turned me from an eager potential scholar into a disillusioned cynic in just one year. Is this the Harvard legacy the administrators want to leave me? I hope they think about this at night when they're trying to go to sleep. I know I do. Ron Fein...