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...students, our claims that literature refines the mind, makes one a more interesting and intellectually supple person, sound pretentious, or worse, therapeutic. The Arnoldian notion that culture elevates us, makes us empathetic and sensitive, is just not true. Don’t believe me? You should hear English professors discuss each other’s work! Students want to be empowered by knowledge, not refined or made precious by it. The age of the snob has passed. There will always be a core constituency of sweet-tempered undergraduates who find literature intrinsically fascinating, just as there will always be devotees...

Author: By Matthews B. Kaiser | Title: Reading Like Your Life Depends On It | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Although the process seems a bit difficult, it is the process, and it is democracy,” said Simmons, outgoing Cambridge mayor, during the final meeting. “It gives us an opportunity to continue to discuss with each other in an informal context...

Author: By Xi Yu and Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Cambridge Runs Mayorless | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Every Tuesday in the fall of 1960, a group of six students gathered in the  living room of Winthrop resident tutor Robert P. Wolff ’54. There, along with Sociology Professor Barrington Moore, they would discuss the likes of Marx, Freud, de Tocqueville, Nietzsche, and Durkheim...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Studies Draws Students | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

While students today might not have to read the whole of “The Wealth of Nations” in a week, they still gather to discuss the classics of social theory in hopes of accumulating a wide range of tools to analyze their surroundings...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Studies Draws Students | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Flores says the Council approached this year with a fresh perspective, kicking off the school year with a UC retreat to give all incoming Council members the chance to discuss the upcoming semester...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Reform School | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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