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...have brought a breath of fresh air to the University, and, at the start of your tenure, we are hopeful you might give a sympathetic hearing to our concern...
...drinks sold in public elementary and middle schools, allowing for the sale of only bottled water and low-fat milk and juice. We are heartened that the amendment, chiefly sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), has bipartisan support, likely a reflection of the public’s growing concern over our children’s preference for the abundance of readily available, sugary and salty food in our schools. According to a report released by the Government Accountability Office in 2005, 99 percent of public high schools, 97 percent of middle schools, and 83 percent of elementary schools have...
...others of the 1960s are now the CEOs beginning to step down from their positions at the heads of those once-terrifying corporations. Blumenthal charged “the ‘bigness’ of modern organizations”, both government and business, with paralyzing his peers. Their concern with their eroding autonomy as members of American society, he wrote, “applied to political activity but, even more importantly, to career choices.” In hindsight, the consequences of the choices these college-aged activists made are disillusioning for those who look on the 1960s...
...distribution of wealth. “I don’t believe there is a choice between development and environmental sustainability,” he said, emphasizing that the two depend on each other. Calkins, the first speaker, said that international development has showed a consistent lack of ethical concern for the environment. As an example, he presented the history of the development of the automobile industries in the United States and in China. “It is crucial that we step up voicing concerns with our government,” he said. Students at the event, which featured...
...efforts, however, enactments of “The Mikado” have on occasion roused controversy. At a recent protest at Occidental College in California, students complained of distortions that are impossible to separate from the imperialist and racist attitudes of the time in which the opera was written.The concern, of course, is a broader one of Orientalism—of the inaccuracies pervasive in Western treatments of Eastern cultures. Any such discussion necessitates the arguments of Edward Said, who observes that “The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place...