Word: academicization
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has always been notoriously hushed about what goes on behind closed doors at their monthly sessions in University Hall. After last Tuesday’s debacle of a meeting, we’re starting to understand why. The Faculty chose to spend two...
There are few better ways to start a day than with the breakfast and the morning newspaper. Those gray pages are not just a source of information, but also the product of hard work and devotion; they convey news hierarchically, not linearly, giving the reader a sense for what is...
The comeback in the semifinal seemed to resemble a more important revival off the field. Just one year ago, Northwestern, a public school of 2,800 students in the impoverished Liberty City neighborhood, was mired in a scandal centered on its football program. The team's 18-year-old star...
Incentives apply to the football players, too: to stay on the team, they must keep a 2.5 grade-point average (out of a possible 4). Staff and students agree that Hankerson, himself a former Miami high school basketball star, has generated a renewed air of discipline and academic purpose. "We...
Northwestern has unusually devoted alumni. But many, especially the zealous football boosters, came under heavy criticism last year for having bred a mentality that said because the school's academic traditions had withered, "sports was the only place kids in Liberty City could demonstrate excellence," says Robert Andrew Powell, a...