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...There's a bedrock core of humanity. We have the same pompousness that needs to be punctured," says Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of the New Yorker and creator of the iconic cartoon in which a man is looking at his calendar while on the phone saying, "No, Thursday's out. How about never--is never good for you?" Mankoff spent two years collecting every cartoon ever printed in the magazine, which meant rounding up old issues from storage facilities in Queens and Illinois. "I'm offering $10 for any cartoon we missed, $20 if you just shut up about...
...wear my loincloth over my eyes and ejaculate too soon.” And in stirring renditions of the poem at the Paradise Rock Club and here at Harvard last year, Williams performed what amounted to a public emasculation. “The truth erupts from her core,” Williams cried, and his audience could only agree. Now, Saul Williams wants his penis back...
Harvard can do better. Harvard has done better. The last two reviews, one in the mid-1940s and the other in the mid-1970s, established the idea of a Core curriculum and committed Harvard to teaching “approaches to knowledge,” respectively. Where those reviews were guided by forceful and visionary principles, the review currently underway has failed to articulate any coherent theme, and is stuck trying to convince the greater community that study abroad, dubbed “internationalization,” mixed with a long-called-for reworking of the Core is somehow avant...
...content for a moment, the reality is that no matter what decisions are made, Harvard cannot change for the better unless students “buy-in.” Left to their own devices, the administration and faculty will probably come up with an acceptable alternative to the Core (it would be hard to dream up anything less successful). However, unless students both contribute to that decision and agree with the rationale behind it, the new general education requirement (the current proposed successor to the Core) will become unpopular long before the next review. We can tinker with academic...
...There's a bedrock core of humanity. We have the same pompousness that needs to be punctured," says Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of the New Yorker and creator of the iconic cartoon in which a man is looking at his calendar while on the phone saying, "No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?" Mankoff spent two years collecting every cartoon ever printed in the magazine, which meant rounding up old issues from storage facilities in Queens and Illinois. "I'm offering $10 for any cartoon we missed, $20 if you just shut up about...