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Re: Ready for drugs

I graduated from the University of Maryland in 1966 with a degree in
journalism.  I write for a living now but when I majored in journalism I
did specifically because there were no science requirements for
graduation.

I had one semester of biology during my four year college career.

Michele Rosenberg

Bill Shear wrote:
> 
> On 3/28/02 12:32 PM, "Margaret Lauterbach" <melauter@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > I may out-grump you, but "avoid science?"  You've got to be kidding.  If
> > you're a liberal arts major, you're NOT PERMITTED to take a science class,
> > especially one such as biology.  All of the sections are full of science
> > majors.  If you later work on a M.S., biology prerequisites are
> > waived.  This situation in our institutions of higher learning (I know it's
> > true in Colorado and Washington, and I'd bet it's true across the country)
> > is a national disgrace.  Just one of many, I guess.  Margaret Lauterbach
> 
> I'm not sure at which college you were a "liberal arts major," Margaret, but
> no liberal arts institution worth its salt allows any student to graduate
> without a solid foundation in the sciences.  Typical of my school and many
> others of the same type is the requirement for ALL students of 3-5 semesters
> of the sciences, usually distributed so as not to have it all in one field.
> Granted, this is pretty slim pickings for the main distinguishing
> characteristic of our western culture.  But your characterization is a
> serious distortion of the situation--at least as I have experienced it in 35
> years of college teaching.
> 
> Bill Shear
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> "I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the intentions
> of man enter very largely and absorb most of the attention.  Man is but the
> place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite....Some rarely go
> outdoors, most are always home at night, very few indeed have stayed out all
> night once in their lives, fewer still have gone beyond the world of
> humanity and seen its institutions like toadstools by the wayside."
> Henry David Thoreau, Journals, Apr. 2, 1852.
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