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Sunday, April 09, 2006
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Sloppy, all over the place, sort of opinion piece… …on Duke lacrosse today in the New York Times, by a writer who lives in Chapel Hill and has had some dealings with Duke. The only valuable paragraph is this one: The university once offered respite from our country's most rabid competitive impulses. Once upon a time, there was even a core curriculum assuring that every student in every field had read the same great works, including sacred texts, Shakespeare, the Greeks. Once science reigned unchallenged by religious strictures. Once institutions of higher learning ranked ... higher. Now corporate America, athletic America, Defense Department America form a unified competitive team. That last sentence is a bit bogus, but the writer’s general point that universities like Duke have sold out to various disreputable interests is valid enough. |