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: The Faculty LoungeStudent Activism for a Worthy Cause
By Alfred Brophy
Lots of students are protesting these days--in Chapel Hill it was over former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who was UNC Law School's graduation speaker; in Indiana, it's over President Obama's speech at Notre Dame.
Save the energy for a useful project. ... Like this one ... getting a better looking diploma! From Christopher Francese's op-ed in the New York Times:
Gotta love it--a protest because my diploma was going to be in English rather than Latin. Oh, my friends who work on class issues in the academy would just love this--Harvard students looking down their noses at the YMCA. An important reminder that we dispose of tradition at the risk of a high cost.I know that getting rid of the Latin diploma will not be easy. While most colleges and universities now issue English diplomas, some prominent holdouts ? including Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania ? still use Latin. Many students and alumni cherish the tradition. In 1961,in the ?diploma riots,? when Harvard switched to English diplomas, about 4,000 students protested and criticized the new documents as ?Y.M.C.A. certificates."
Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on May 16, 2009 (boomark / email).
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