doc summers on Tiger Mountain

October 27, 2006

As Harvard goes . . . .

Filed under: doc summers — jerry @ 7:26 am

Well . . . if Harvard U proposes requiring a course integrating issues of faith and reason for all students, then what shall the rest of us do?

I’m referring to a Harvard curriculum committee proposal noted in The Dallas Morning News 27OCT06, article by Rev. John I. Jenkins (Notre Dame president) and their provost Thomas Burish.

Also: http://www.pluralism.org/news/index.php#headline13793 for more details.

Students on Tiger Mountain take religion courses. Of course the Harvard thing is only surprising because it’s an all-university requirement, and because it is meant to tackle the “profoundly secular” intellectual and campus culture there. After 370 years that’s not so shocking, or it might be. (more…)

October 26, 2006

Lady Tiger?

Filed under: Campus — jerry @ 6:22 am

It’s a Southern Thing, or is it actually just an American thing? Our athletic teams are “The Tigers” and “The Lady Tigers.” Could have been The Tigresses” though they’re plenty fierce anyway, already, worth watching and yelling about. Well, this is my opening shot on the new blog page. Thanks to my technoguru son I’m up this far and there will be more to come!

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