February 25, 2010
Tom Lindsay, president of the Great Books college, has made himself highly unpopular by insisting on a return to the ideals of Western civilization. Faculty members unanimously opposed a new mission......
February 24, 2010
"Sustainability" is certainly one of them, but in this week's Clarion Call, I focus on the way "globalization" is being used as an excuse for creating new courses such as "global diversity."
February 23, 2010
If you haven't had a chance to read this column by William Pannapacker (writing as Thomas H. Benton), you owe yourself the pleasure. (Unless you are considering graduate school in the......
February 23, 2010
A former University of Buffalo scientific researcher, William Fals-Stewart, has been accused of using actors -- yes, hired, scripted actors -- as part of a painstaking plan to win acquittal in a mis......
February 23, 2010
As an undergrad, I spent one year at Berkeley, 1968, a year full of death, riots, tear gas, and bayonets under Peder Sather’s gate. I dressed in Levis, love beads from a head shop on Teleg......
