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...course, this is all in the (somewhat) distant, gloomy future. For the moment, parents’ and adult relatives?? forays into Facebook can seem merely awkward. When the friend request comes, what to do? If you accept, they can see everything. Pictures from parties, your relationship status (leading to fun games like, “You’re married to your female friend? That’s a joke right?”), drunk wall posts and status updates, and photos of red Solo cups are now fair game. If you reject, they will be crushed...
...air.Of course, concerns about the responses to globalization and multiculturalism in the academy are not novel. In fact, this year’s General Education program was originally conceived as an antidote to the university’s increasingly specialized core curriculum offerings (“Dinosaurs and Their Relatives??, anybody?). As it stands, however, Gen Ed is essentially a reshuffling of existing courses into new subcategories—these pages criticized it as “little more than a muddled and insipid rehash of the old Core”—thus perpetuating the current...
...people shift in and out of focus when you step near to the antenna. Those of us who return home to cathode-ray tubes each vacation must consider the Analog Darkness whenever we choose Core classes. What kind of post-television exchanges will “Dinosaurs and their Relatives?? lead to? How about “Justice”? Will our television-bereft parents enjoy whimsical hypotheticals about trolley cars and the morbidly obese? Will our liberal education prepare us adequately for the static ahead?Former Yale president Kingman Brewster, Jr., said that a liberal education...
...iron grip on Core credit also reduced the educational standard of Core classes. With no competition from departmental courses, which are not permitted to count for credit, many Core classes have been allowed to become irrelevant—like Science B-57, “Dinosaurs And Their Relatives??—while others border on the obscure—for instance, Literature and Arts B-48, “Chinese Imaginary Space.” The welcome exceptions to this rule—such as Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice?...
...profit to provide urban women the “entrepreneurial tools” to market the silk-weaving they produce, Leng says. Her post-graduate goals reflect two interests deepened at Harvard: her Cambodian heritage and public service. Leng, whose family—parents and 40 relatives??moved to Massachusetts a year before she was born, says that her parents’ Cambodian culture remained a significant part of their lives, even in the States. Aside from pursuing public sector work under the fellowship, which will mark her first trip to Cambodia, Leng will meet more extended family...