Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/23/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1087. Thursday, 22 Feb 1990. (1) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 10:29 PST (27 lines) From: KESSLER <IME9JFK> Subject: Re: 3.1080 N&Q: reading aloud; PhD dissertations (124) (2) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 90 21:08:10 EST (16 lines) From: Tzvee Zahavy <MAIC@UMINN1> Subject: E-Version of Halio article. (3) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 90 12:01:00 EST (13 lines) From: EIEB360@UTXVM Subject: humans and machines (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 10:29 PST From: KESSLER <IME9JFK> Subject: Re: 3.1080 N&Q: reading aloud; PhD dissertations (124) Let me add that I received yesterday an advance copy of Professor Page Smith's latest work, which takes up this whole area of discussion and how! It is from V iking Press, and is titled, KILLING THE SPIRIT, Higher Education in America. He takes a historical approach, showing the history of higher studies, and its fi nal "flowering" in the 20th Century. I thinkany discussion might best begin fro m a widespread perusal of his new work. I know Page, and i know he has been fig hting this battle for decades, to the point of having resigned ten years ago as Provost of the first College at University of California Sta Cruz, Cowell coll ege, which he helped found in 1963-64, over a dispute in a tenure case: he havi ng vowed resignation if they did grant tenure to a young acolyte whose teaching was far better, or shall we substantiated? than the records of his publication , and perhaps the case was that Page backed the fellow into the putting of his efforts into students and not into the safe first book. Page of course is a pro lific writer in any case. Still he put his career where his rhetoric was, and d id indeed resign...going on to write his multivolume A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF AMER ICA for the Bicentennial, etc. Now he seems to be going for the heart the matte r, his dispute with the distortions of Academe. Les deformations professionelle s. I think that will not change things, his book, but it certainly is sueful fo r us all in 1990! Including other areas of the University of course. Kessler (2) --------------------------------------------------------------20---- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 90 21:08:10 EST From: Tzvee Zahavy <MAIC@UMINN1> Subject: E-Version of Halio article. Someone announced through Humanist that they would try to get permission to distribute the Halio article so that the debate over IBM vs. MAC could continue on a more informed level. I thought that was a good idea and noticed that my secretary had some time. I do have an E-Version of the article ready to go if the permission can be obtained. Last week Kinkos Copy Center obtained a permission for me from Harper Row over the phone to photocopy several chapters of a book for my mega-course of 400 students in Jewish Studies. Perhaps a phone permission could be obtained for the Halio article. Will the party who volunteered to do so please step forward? (3) --------------------------------------------------------------23---- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 90 12:01:00 EST From: EIEB360@UTXVM Subject: humans and machines Thanks to Ed Harris for the posting about Peter Lewis' article in the NYT. Oddly enough, this afternoon I'm due to go to a meeting with a group of people from foreign language depts about setting up an interdepartmental computer research-and-instruction facility, and the guy who called to set up the meeting tells me that the people who teach Arabic want machines equipped with speech output devices-- that would dovetail nicely with the needs of visually impaired and print-handicapped students and faculty. Strange partnerships! John Slatin