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...listening to David [A.] Wax [’05]—he has a great song called “Not Guilty”—because he’s my roommate. I listened to Another Side of Bob Dylan yesterday while I was trying to write a paper. The Basement Tapes and Planet Waves. A little bit of Jamiroquai, especially “Canned Heat,” the song from Napoleon Dynamite. And a bluegrass group from North Carolina called Sons of Ralph on their album Grab a Root and Growl has an electric version...
...which you describe as "the guns of Cornell," when armed weapons were brought onto the campus. You evoke these very strong images as if they were the last days of Pompeii for American higher education. How much influence did this experience have on you and your decision to write the book...
...these wonderful things. But I have since come to regard universities as much less reliable allies. My critics see extreme moral indignation. I have much more contempt for the disproportionately great pretensions and claims about their courage and beliefs than any real anger. But I didn't really write the book to settle accounts. My passion comes out of the sense of what's important and the freedom that comes through study and the concern for young persons who are being deprived of all standards outside themselves. But the book is not the brooding account of someone's anger...
Anybody who has read this column before (thanks, Mom) knows that I don’t usually weigh in on campus politics. When I decided to write about Senior Gift Plus, I didn’t know what I was getting into. Since my last column, I’ve gotten compliments from people I’ve never met, and I’ve had friends act like I just killed their cat. The issue raises international questions about corporate money in repressive countries and local questions about the role of Senior Gift at Harvard. Everybody seems...
Expos appropriately emphasizes commonalities over differences among fields. At the Writing Center, we find that Expos classes dealing with technical subjects which are new to many first-years tend to be problematic from the perspective of writing instruction. If students are having trouble understanding the subject matter, it is nearly impossible for them to concentrate on improving their writing. Instead, easily accessible, general subjects allow students to develop a variety of ideas and learn how to write about them most effectively. Such principles of good writing are then transferable across fields, within which one can increase the level...