Harvard to God: Drop Dead
As both the Crimson and the Globe note, Harvard profs have dropped a plan to make undergraduates take at least one course in religion.
As Marcella Bombardieri writes, "Instead, the faculty task force suggested a different, broader category, 'what it means to be a human being'...."
Call it the Oprah-fication of the curricular review. "What it means to be a human being." What a hoot!
"I think secular and liberal Harvard rebelled," government professor Harvey Mansfield, one of the campus's most outspoken conservatives, said last night.
This time, Mansfield may be right.....