The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 1990 Page: 3 of 16
sixteen pages : ill. ; page 19 x 15 in.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1990 3
Students pack
econ, literature
courses in Ivy
League
Beyond the Hedges
by Neil Robinson
The Harvard Crimson and The Daily Prince-
tonian have recently released figures on the
most heavily populated courses at Harvard and
Princeton: "Principles of Economics" and
"Modern European Writers," respectively.
Social Analysis 10 at Harvard has 898 stu-
dents, four more than Moral Reasoning 22,
"Justice." The Harvard Crimson indicated that
these two classes have been "perennial favor-
ites."
Douglas Elmendorf, assistant professor of
economics and instructor of the economics
course, said, "The talk about a recession and in-
creased oil prices is dominating the headlines,
and that may make economics a more pressing
and interesting subject"
At Princeton, Literature 141 topped the list
with 392 students, compared to 382 students in
"The Structure and Functioning of the Na-
tional Economy," Economics 101. The reason
for their popularity was their usefulness in
meeting area requirements, according to The
Daily Princetonian.
Fifth on the Princeton list was English 377,
"Special Topics in Contemporary Culture,"
which has 283 students. Quickly gaining popu-
larity, this relatively new course looks at comic
books, television and popular music to see how
popular culture relates to art
Only 50 students are enrolled in another
course which deals with popular culture, Hu-
manities 210, "Ethics, Aesthetics, and the
Arts," which compares the tragedies of the an-
cient Greeks to television productions of today.
"Students are much more likely to know
one episode from LA Law than one canto from
Dante's Inferno," stated Alexander Nehamas,
who teaches the course.
Distribution diversity: According to The
Stanford Daily, the Faculty Senate has been
debating that university's distribution require-
ments. Suggestions before the senate include
more attention to the study of race, gender, and
non-Western culture.
If the senate votes on November 29 to ac-
cept the proposal, it will begin to affect next
year's freshmen. It would increase the number
ofrequired courses from 10 to 11; add the areas
of "World Cultures" and "American Cultures,"
a course that "examines critically the concept
of race;" and would require some course to be
taken that "critically examines interpretations
of-gender differences and the relations be-
tween men and women."
The requirements would be reorganized
into three core clusters: culture, science, and
humanities and social science.
An alternative proposal has also been sub-
mitted by professor David Abernethy, which
only serves to ensure that students examine
non-Western culture.
Abernethy said that the purpose of distribu-
tion was to expose students to a wide variety of
subject materials, and that the focus on race
and gender, while important, "overloads the
distribution requirement system [and] to over-
load the system is to weaken it."
In response, the Committee on Under-
graduate Studies (which came up with the
initial proposal) chair Peter Duus said that
proposal represented "a compromise" be-
tween preparing students to live in the world
and encouraging students to engage in "a
breadth of study."
Student summit, for real: Last weekend
the Association of Students at Stanford Univer-
sity (ASSU) had its first-ever ASSU Leadership
Summit, according to The Stanford Daily.
Approximately 80 representatives from 17
campus communities and 20 at large delegates
met to discuss leadership, multiculturalism,
public service, and the identities and goals of
their individual communities, and to brain-
storm ideas on how to wojJt together in the
future.
Council of Presidents member Goodwin
Liu, who led the effort for the summit, hoped
that one of the results would be shared re-
sources among different organizations. He
said that there was a lack of collaboration on
campus because leaders allowed campus poli-
tics to interfere with their projects.
In addition to discussion and brainstorm-
ing, the summit includes workshops on each of
three major themes: multicultural awareness,
the role of public service in student's lives, and
student leadership.
rum1
f WMpAl
MAN, LOOK AT
THAT! HE TRAVELS
WITH 7HFBB
CHOPPERS'.
well, he
is running
the. mas
SHOW.
I
/? /) F//-/Z B o o
I (AJONDER WHAT
THE OP MAN'S 60ING
TO HARANGUE US
ABOUT TOP AY...
H0U) YOUR low morale,
FIRS, I'm guessing.
m5n!
GOOD MORNING, LADIES
AND GENTLEMEN! I'M
RUNNING LATE, SO LET
ME CJUT TO THE CHASE !
/
lately therms been a lot of
loose talk about there
being a morale problem
among the fighting forces
well, i'm here. to tele you
there is no morale problem!
repeat, there- is no morale-
problem ! any talk about
'( ));, COCK!
P/S- WE MUST JUST
AjHCGPD/ HAVEANATT/-
/yjlyPC-i/.' TUDE PROBLEM.
*
0
f GENERAL, IF THERE'S
well, let me just clear
up wr confusion, boy! our
military mission has three
basic goals! one, to defend
saudi arabia...
two, liberate kuwait! and
three, restore peace and
stability to the region. that's
what i've been ordered to do,
and that'swhati'm damn
well going
to do! is
that
clear?
YO, GENERAL !
WHY DON'T YOU
PART THE RED
SEA IAJHILE YOU'RE
AT IT'-.
what
is it,
sol-
dier2
A MORALE PROBLEM,
IT'S MOSTLY BECAUSE
A LOT OF US ARE STILE
CONFUSS? OVER WHAT
OUR MISSION IS.,.
yes,sir. you
say one of our
objectives is
the establish-
ment of peace
and stability in
the region
but yo, sir, i gotta wonder
what hope does a small con-
tingent of outsiders have
of doing ujhat the local popu
lations have been unable to
do for themselves for nearly
4,000 years
you have a
question,
50ldier
/
NOTREALLY,
SIR. JUST THE
IN-FLIGHT
MAGAZINE
SG. YOU'VE.
read
HISTORY
SON
I
//-/5
poi ever'
ujhat!s this,
meat? soup2
eggplant-
beats me.
'7 tastes
like some
sortof
grouting
compound..
MAN, I WISH
BOOPSIE HJOULP GET A
PACKAGE TOME. I'VE BEEN
DREAMING EVERY NIGHT
ABOUT HER BANANA
BREAD AND
D f X CHOCOLATE
CHIPCOOK-
IES
help your-
self, buttsy.
i hope you
like your
6rub powdered.
HES SEEN
SEND! NO ME
A VIBE -HE
NEEDS CIG-
ARETTES
ivel-l, he
is under
a ijjjof
STRESS..
MM MM !
YUMMY! YOUR
M.R.E. LOOKS
SCRUMPTIOUS
today, b.d.!
m
SO HOW RE
OKAY, I
YOU MAKING
GUESS. T
OUT AS A
DO MISS
MAR WIDOW,
B.D. TER-
KIP?
RJBLY...
' \
v
A.. _
:
1 Vv ill'
anyone
been hit-
ting on
you2 be-
sides me,
i mean.
just the
usual beards
over atthe
studio,.. ■
11-17
actually, i did get a message
on my machine from ujarren
beatty today he saw me on
the paramount lot and caliep
to ask me out from
10:00 to 10.ts
tonight.
A 15-MINUTE
DATE ? HES
SLIPPING.
yean,
sounded
weird.
what can
you talk
about in ■
15 minutes*
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Moeller, Kurt & Yates, Jay. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 1990, newspaper, November 16, 1990; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245768/m1/3/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.