Re climate change and the need to keep talking about it in a way that keeps peop!e listening and thinking. We are not "all going to die". But tragically many people are, slowly, because of drying up and blowing away of topsoil, or because the new normal is perennial flooding and drowning of crops. The problem is that "we" are complacent because that is happening to "them". Of course, "they" might not stay in "their" part of the globe. "They" may want to join us in "our" relatively unaffected part. Migrations are part of human history. "We" need to remember that and feel less propriatorial.
Re not using race as a factor in college admissions - that would imp!y no legacy admissions, since by definition "legacies" are White.
I was shocked when I first learned about legacy admissions, and have opposed them ever since. They might make sense for a small, private, non-competitive school that needs to build a sense of community and heritage. For elite schools, they're obscene.
But I had never thought of them as race-inflected. Of course the students of generations ago were white, and so of course legacy admissions perpetuate white privilege. Thanks for that insight.
Re climate change and the need to keep talking about it in a way that keeps peop!e listening and thinking. We are not "all going to die". But tragically many people are, slowly, because of drying up and blowing away of topsoil, or because the new normal is perennial flooding and drowning of crops. The problem is that "we" are complacent because that is happening to "them". Of course, "they" might not stay in "their" part of the globe. "They" may want to join us in "our" relatively unaffected part. Migrations are part of human history. "We" need to remember that and feel less propriatorial.
Re not using race as a factor in college admissions - that would imp!y no legacy admissions, since by definition "legacies" are White.
I was shocked when I first learned about legacy admissions, and have opposed them ever since. They might make sense for a small, private, non-competitive school that needs to build a sense of community and heritage. For elite schools, they're obscene.
But I had never thought of them as race-inflected. Of course the students of generations ago were white, and so of course legacy admissions perpetuate white privilege. Thanks for that insight.