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...learning,” read the original copyright statute, signed into law by George Washington in 1790. The Constitution stated the act’s single purpose: “to promote the progress of science and useful arts.” Copyright was a deal between individuals and society??authors got just enough monopoly rights to incentivize them to benefit society through their creativity...
...Sociology professor Mary C. Brinton includes Kozol’s 2005 “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America” on her “Education and Society?? syllabus...
...level of prejudice and its effects in America. In “Political Progress and the Development of Black Insurgency,” Douglas McAdam affirms descriptive representation is valuable in its contribution to the cognitive liberation—what Americans consider to be legitimate and acceptable within society??s institutions—of American society as a whole. A black man or a woman of any color, in the highest office, may help reform the way current and future Americans conceive of those who hold power, and it may also affect many Americans’ unconscious assumptions...
Last week, a few students in the Dartmouth writing class “Science, Technology, and Society?? received a nasty shock. When they checked their inboxes, they learned that their professor, Priya Venkatesan, was planning to sue them for discrimination. Later investigations revealed that she also planned to sue the College and several faculty members, not referring to any particular episode, but mentioning the “hostility” she felt during her time as a professor and saying that “maybe it has something to do with my ethnicity or my gender...
...multiple artistic interests. “It’s founded on the idea that one can be very immersed in one craft and have a general interest in the arts.”When Whitaker assumed control of the Signet, she faced the challenge of continuing the society??s strong tradition of fostering creativity in the arts at Harvard. “Here, you feel like you’re in the shadows of all these great people,” she says of the society, whose former members include T.S. Eliot, class of 1909, and Norman...