January 2011
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Naming the Buildings
When the College first opened in 1970, the buildings on campus had utilitarian names such as “House I”, “Academic Building I”, “Science Building” and so on. That year, the Trustees decided to name some of the existing buildings for people connected with the founding of the College. Thus, the library was named after Harold F. Johnson, chairman of the Board...
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“אם תרצו, אין זו אגדה”
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Iraqi Kurdistan, #34 on NYT List of Places to Go
Safety, history and a warm welcome in a stable corner of Iraq. As United States forces withdraw from Iraq, a handful of intrepid travel companies are offering trips to the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the north, which has enjoyed relative safety and stability in recent years. Visitors can tour significant cultural landmarks like Erbil’s citadel, which dates to the Assyrian empire, and the site...
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Are you Jewish?
‘CAUSE YOU ISRAELI HOT.
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Are you Jewish?
‘CAUSE YOU ISRAELI HOT.
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The New Zodiac
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Can you shut down a library with no books?
The library at Stony Stratford, on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, looks like the aftermath of a crime, its shell-shocked staff presiding over an expanse of emptied shelves. Only a few days ago they held 16,000 volumes. The empty shelves, as the library users want to demonstrate, represent the gaping void that will exist in their community if the library closes.
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“I sometimes visualize the ongoing cycle of racism as a moving walkway at the...”
– Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D., Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race (via a-n-a-r-c-h-a)
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“I sometimes visualize the ongoing cycle of racism as a moving walkway at the...”
– Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D., Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race (via a-n-a-r-c-h-a)
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“When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson...”
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“When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson...”
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Maybe the difference would be that Chabad would...
On the Reform Movement’s Patrilineal Descent Policy:
The Reform movement gets to put its money where its mouth is about egalitarianism, and many people are welcomed into Jewish communities who otherwise wouldn’t be, and there is zero adverse effect on kelal Yisrael. Suppose Gershom grows up and wants to marry an Orthodox or Conservative woman (or, perhaps after this December, a...
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Maybe the difference would be that Chabad would...
On the Reform Movement’s Patrilineal Descent Policy:
The Reform movement gets to put its money where its mouth is about egalitarianism, and many people are welcomed into Jewish communities who otherwise wouldn’t be, and there is zero adverse effect on kelal Yisrael. Suppose Gershom grows up and wants to marry an Orthodox or Conservative woman (or, perhaps after this December, a...
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For those people who think that gay parents can...
zackstix:
Simba turned out pretty damn awesome
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For those people who think that gay parents can...
zackstix:
Simba turned out pretty damn awesome
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grades and how obsolete they are →
without-rain:
At the college level, at least.
I just got my grade back for my Amherst College class, Asian American Identity in Law and Literature. A-, which I’m satisfied with. But what does that really mean?
Education should be about you; it should be about your self advancement, your pursuit of what you…
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grades and how obsolete they are →
without-rain:
At the college level, at least.
I just got my grade back for my Amherst College class, Asian American Identity in Law and Literature. A-, which I’m satisfied with. But what does that really mean?
Education should be about you; it should be about your self advancement, your pursuit of what you…