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Except, of course, if you believe that a liberal arts education should be untainted by the specter of naked greed. Ostensibly, the undergraduate experience is an opportunity to contemplate life's higher questions and learn to appreciate its more refined pleasures. Admittedly, the notion that college is a time for self-edification, shielded from the more crass concerns of the rat race, has been under assault for years. From the increasingly heated resume-padding battles of the extracurricular sphere, to the proliferation of pre-professional courses, the purely liberal education has long been on the wane--especially here at Harvard...
...became apparent at the opening ceremony how much the mind rewrites itself over time: only Buren remembered what he had done with his box, while the other three artists were as surprised as the audience by the contents. Ironically, the Time Boxes project reinforces that modernist art historical notion of the artist as seer, able to represent the truth behind experience. We have faith that these creators can distill the very essence of their age; we expect the quiddity of the object to be revealed. Yet these capsules, because of their quarter-century embalming, take authorship away from the artists...
...reject the notion that there is a set of bureaucratic questions Faculty shouldn't have to answer, " Lewis says. "I think that almost every question is an opportunity to explain something...
...People who have experience reading code can have a much better notion of what constitutes inappropriate similarities in code," Sheiber says. "The decision about what constitutes plagiarism is made not made by software--it's made by the people...
Underlying this silly "two-in-one-flesh" argument, however, is a more troubling notion--the idea that the feelings of same-sex couples are somehow inferior to those experienced by heterosexual couples, mere imperfect replicas of "real" love. Yet, the emotional intimacy between two men or two women can be just as real, and felt just as strongly, as that between a man and a woman. It's sad that people like Moschella won't acknowledge that...