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A joint committee of students and administrators developed the itinerary for parents weekend several months ago. It intentionally focused on those topics most engaging for parents--such as student life, extracurricular activities and what it means to be a college student--and not those that are most contentious on campus...
But in recent years, bolstered by the federal government's de-emphasis of social services and the growth of the non-profit sector, K-School students are increasingly turning away from government jobs to seek employment in non-profit organizations and private firms.
Through an emphasis on plurality, Padan Aram tries to maintain its freshness despite the recent increase in "Advocate alternatives."
But after the Great Society, the emphasis on dignity, struggle and pride in accomplishment was replaced in the rhetoric of some black leaders by a toxic seepage of self-pity, of the victim theme. Passivity, grievance and denial became the psychic orthodoxy. The culture of victimization came to replicate in...
By now, too, the author's mannerisms are like old pals. One staple is stretches of unanchored dialogue so protracted that one has to go back and count off who is speaking. Another is italics. A simple sentence like "If only Marcus could start writing, then everything would move" would...