Word: program
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...bigots do not object to liberal women speaking at Commencement. We object to a constant parade of liberal women, selected at the expense of the truly exceptional. We do not object to ethnic literature. We object to the outright politicization of a required instructional program, and the elevation of good writing to great writing simply because it is penned by minority authors...
...Expository Writing program, which Mansfield dubbed "P.C. to the core," a quick examination of the offerings affirms his characterization. In a mandatory program designed to hone the writing abilities of each incoming class, one would think an emphasis might be placed on the great maestros of the English language--Dickens, James, Twain, Austen, Woolf and Wharton...
...would think that the program would teach the writer's craft, not cultural studies. But more than 50 percent of the Expos offerings do just that. We get courses about "American Identities in Everyday Life," "Bi-culturalism and American Identity" and, my favorite, "Popular Culture and Mass Media," a class which examines such watershed films as "The Color Purple" and "The Joy Luck Club." The syllabus boasts an interdisciplinary approach which draws on sociology, Afro-American studies and gender studies--all inarguably indispensable influences on the art of expository composition...
Many on this campus would no doubt laud both the University's taste in Commencement speakers and its writing program. They perceive the project of multiculturalism as a righteous crusade to break the grip of white patriarchy on our educational institutions. They deride their opponents as close-minded bigots, but in truth it is they who are close-minded...
Shaham's fun-loving energy carried over into the next piece on the program, an arrangement by the violinist Vasa Prihoda of the waltzes from Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier. The waltzes of Richard Strauss (better known as the "Waltz King" and composer of the famous Blue Danube Waltz) are always lush, sweeping and charmingly Romantic--an appropriately opulent depiction of turn-of-the-century Vienna. The problem in this piece was depicting the full orchestral grandeur of such a work with only an accompanied violin--a problem Gil Shaham easily overcame. His delivery of the waltzes was delightfully...