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...approved an amendment allowing stem cell research. Arkansas, with a 57 percent majority, made it constitutionally illegal for a gay couple to adopt children. Regardless of your personal beliefs on these issues, Americans, as a people, need to have a conversation on whether it’s a good idea to change the highest law of the state to satisfy transient concerns such as these...
...clearly misinformed and ultimately misguided. First and foremost, the political leanings of professors are poor litmus tests for their intellect, pedagogical aptitude, or enthusiasm for teaching—all of which are more important considerations in the hiring of professors and the development of young minds. Secondly, the idea that liberal—or untraditional—scholarship is undesirable is one fundamentally opposed to the ideal of academia, which has proven most influential when it has pressed conventional knowledge to its limits and challenged traditional ways of thinking. It is perhaps true is that the trend of academic scholarship...
...everything Harvard,’” the editors stated at the beginning of the year, a phrase so full of paradox and tortured logic that one can only imagine the sort of discussion that goes in The Voice’s headquarters. Got a zany idea about what makes Harvard students “tick”? Have you ever written a LiveJournal entry? Great: Let’s send it to press. Don’t mind the titles cut off by the fold of the page; did you notice we’re wearing sunglasses...
...bright orange banners and “I-buttons” are appropriate recompense for an utter lack of substance. As such, the real tragedy of The Voice is not the annoyance of a second-rate new publication but the giant slap in the face it offers to the idea of meritocracy. It is a depressing proof positive that neither good ideas, nor even mediocre ideas, can assure a rise to the top as effectually as the bludgeon of clichés, the gloss of marketing, and the access to money...
...Patterson seemed to speak to Californians' inchoate phobias about gays and kids. On the Friday before the Bee story appeared, a group of San Francisco first-graders was taken to city hall to see their lesbian teacher marry her partner. Apparently the field trip was a parent's idea - not the teacher's - but the optics of the event were terrible for the gay side. It seemed like so much indoctrination...