Sheer pleasure in an archive
The last occasion I spent time in the Georgia State Archives was in 1991, when I was in the midst of dissertation research. I was there last week looking at a series of local school-district reports from the late 1930s through the 1960s that had detailed numbers on the age and grade of students, exactly […]
Public intellectuals
In Favor of Thinking‘s commentary on Susan Sontag points out her role as a public intellectual. Is Sontag’s death the end of an era? I suspect not, for several reasons?
Relationships between faculty and students
By Sherman Dorn on January 2, 2005
Today’s St. Petersburg Times covers USF‘s faculty debate over faculty-student relationships and the appropriate policy: discourage or prohibit? The article is pretty good for journalism: I didn’t catch any inaccuracies, and it covered at least 60% of the substantive issues on campus. (There’s only so much you can do given the news space even in […]
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