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February 23, 2010

Another Reason for the Grad School Glut

Andrew Spiropoulos

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......

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February 23, 2010

Academe Gets Curioser and Curioser

Candace de Russy

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......

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February 23, 2010

Brothers in Arms

David Clemens

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......

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February 23, 2010

Going Green is Part of Social Integrity? No Comment

Ashley Thorne

"An Honor Code must link social integrity with ecological sustainability," says a student. Is that really so?

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February 19, 2010

Those Were the Days

Glenn Ricketts

Springtime, 1968: the Great Divide in American higher education.

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