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Yale University’s plans to open a joint campus with the National University of Singapore next year are being criticized by faculty, students and alumni who are concerned about dealing with Singapore’s autocratic government and its long history of trampling on civil and political rights. Yale’s administrators believe they can succeed where other prestigious institutions — including Britain’s Warwick and America’s Johns Hopkins universities — have failed. The campus, called Yale-NUS, “will pioneer a ‘global curriculum’ that ‘will draw on the best elements of the American liberal arts tradition, but re-shape and re-imagine the curriculum and collegiate experience for Asia,’” says a statement on the Yale-NUS website. On Thursday Yale faculty approved a resolution by a…
Hi Kids, I received an email on Friday from Paul Sparrow @ Newseum. He requested that reposting of Newseum front page images be discontinued on this tumblr. I will comply to that request, so posting will be halted indefinitely starting tomorrow. Hopefully, we can come to a resolution so that posting can continue here.
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Alternative News Links! The mainstream media IS NOT going to tell us what is really going on in today's society. We are spoon fed corporate propaganda by TV, "newspapers", etc. every day. Here are a few places where you can read the other side of the story.
via CNN | 5 days, 6 hours, 27 minutes ago Nancy Zuch started the Morgan Center, a free preschool program for children battling cancer. Named after Zuch's daughter, a cancer survivor, the Morgan Center has helped more than 150 children make friends, learn and play in a safe environment.
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Since the beginning of recorded time, and probably since long before that, the human body has been highly politicized, particularly in the areas of sexuality and reproduction. With the emergence of biotechnology, genetic modification, and the further refinement of psychopharmacology, we can expect further political polarization around the ethical issues these new options will raise. For example: should we genetically enhance our offspring in accordance with our cultural values, thereby significantly shaping their future in unpredictable ways before they’re even born? In our time, many of the political battles over the body revolve around reproduction, and therefore the rights of women. Abortion and birth control, specifically, are epicenters of controversy in the United States, and the site of a fervent cultural clash between religious ideas about sex and reproduction and democratic ideals of personal liberty.