«Лиге плюща» и коллегиальным институтам уже давно уютно с ЦРУ. Эти связи противоречат предполагаемому космополитическому этосу модели гуманитарных наук,
или может быть, нам что-то сообщают про неотъемлемое моральное банкротство и
логическую нестабильность высшего образования.
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In August of 1965, former news editor of The Sophian, Marsha Cohen ’68 was escorted off the set of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” Then…
Trigger Warning: This article contains mention of mental illness and suicide that some may find distressing.
How do you begin the opinion piece about sexual assault on a college campus? Maybe, if you’re like me, you’ve had a decade or so of practice in the area. You know the talking points by heart– you know that assault is especially pervasive among college students. That universities tend to prioritize their donors, not their survivors. Maybe you’re like 27% of my peers: you’re practiced at managing the aftershocks of your own assault as you navigate higher education.
It’s a common story at colleges across the country: student activists demand a phaseout of fossil fuel investment at the institutional level, and the board of trustees offers a provisional fifteen, twenty, or thirty-year plan. Smith made the switch in 2019 following a survey in which 92% of students voted in favor of divestment. Yet the school’s fifteen-year, best-case-scenario promise falls short of scientific consensus– the U.N. writes that we have nine years left before climate collapse becomes irreversible.
In Chinese and Vietnamese Buddhism, a “hungry ghost” is a species of spirit driven by a need that went unfulfilled in mortal life. Karmically condemned…