Letter to the Editor: What do diversity office staff members actually do?
To the editor: It’s a trick question! “How successful are these initiatives at carrying out their goals?” “Wellllll, son, that all depends …. on just zackly what those ‘goals’ might…
Letter to the Editor: Diversity offices are unnecessary
To the editor: Excellent piece on diversity offices. They are both unnecessary and damaging to a university’s proper mission. They are unnecessary because universities have survived quite well without them…
Letter to the Editor: Subjectivity of peer review
To the editor: Peer reviews are always suspect because the peers usually have have their own subjective opinions and are therefore inclined to bias. Review should only address factual integrity.…
Letter to the Editor: Davidson College has changed
To the editor: I graduated from Davidson College nearly 50 years ago. Since that time, the College has maintained that the culture of the school has remained unchanged. The failure…
Letter to the Editor: Syllabi should be easier to obtain
To the editor: Peter Knupfer makes some valid points in his July 13 letter to the editor, “Syllabi Aren’t Secrets,” but I disagree that syllabi “are as public as can…
Letter to the Editor: Academic freedom in jeopardy at Berea College
To the editor: Of course the process was arbitrary, unfair, malicious, and rigged. What else is new? The outcome was (or should have been) apparent at the start. As soon…
Letter to the Editor: Syllabi aren’t secrets
To the editor: Jenna Robinson’s concerns about syllabi are overwrought and misdirected. No syllabus is ever a “secret.” Syllabi are distributed to the students who enroll in the class, not…
Letter to the Editor: Paying college athletes?
To the editor: Paying college athletes? Aren’t they already paid? (This really should come as no surprise.) They’re paid in full-ride scholarships, tutoring, national & international travel, and free access…
Letter to the Editor: Eradicating microaggressions will not eliminate racism
To the editor: I appreciated George Leef’s article, and the law journal article by Cantu and Jussim that it reviewed. I recently learned, for example, that whites apparently have a…
Letter to the Editor: The dangers of a fundamentalist mindset
To the editor: As per Morson & Schapiro, there is, evidently Good Fundamentalism (which soothes their own kicky blankets) and Bad Fundamentalism (which roils them). Unsurprisingly they find the Bad…