The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education

THE CHRONICLE of Higher Education ® October 10, 2014 • $6.99 chronicle.com Volume LXI, Number 6 How ‘Yes Search Committees Learn: Means Yes’ Google at Your Own Risk A6 Works on One Campus A4 STEVE PYKE Brian Leiter Says LUCIO VILLA FOR THE CHRONICLE He’s Not a Bully, The Ph.D. Student’s Ticking Clock Just a New Yorker Life is complicated. So is getting students to finish faster. A18 A8 PEOPLE VIEWS INSIDE Outcome-Based Income TECHNOLOGY A pay-for-success method of funding higher education might help Yik Yak and Yecch low-income students the most. A22 Anonymous posts on the campus smartphone app veer into the Publish? Perish the Thought disgusting and the threatening. A11 For doctoral students’ sake, don’t let them reach print until they’ve earned INTERNATIONAL their degrees. A23 How Students Seized the Moment in Hong Kong THE CHRONICLE REVIEW A boycott of Historian to Lead classes put Global-Affairs School them in the R. Scott Appleby wants to put streets, the U. of Notre Dame on the map SCOTT VARLEY, DAILY BREEZE energizing de- for issues like climate change. A15 Thought Crime mocracy demon- strations. A12 Creative Spirit Debate Heats Up Lynne Jordan Horoschak knew that STUDENTS special-needs children could benefit Grad Rates: Look Closely from learning art, so she created a graduate program to help Over Exclusionary When the cell door shut behind the A peek at Indiana U.’s unusually deep that happen. A15 data shows why even an enviable Iranian philosopher, his solitary Religious Groups A10 statistic needs some parsing. A12 education began. B6 A2 october 10, 2014 | the chronicle of higher education The Week What you need to know about the past seven days dismissal as well, saying the football program deeply, and I smiled when you confessed In the Affirmative had “become a black eye for the University of that it was so far a superficial understand- Last week Gov. Jerry Brown of California Michigan.” The university’s president, Mark S. ing, that you would have to read more books signed a law that requires the state’s public Schlissel, subsequently issued an apology and to combine theory with practice. What and private colleges to adopt policies spelling ordered a review of player-safety procedures. teacher would not be filled with joy to watch out what constitutes consent between (or Whether that will satisfy students and fans his students seize learning so in- among) people having sex, and setting guide- remains to be seen, but the incident seems dependently, so concretely, and lines for sexual-assault investigations. Accord- like a cultural milestone nonetheless. Dan with such passion? ing to the legislation, “it is the responsibility Hooker, a former associate director of sports of each person involved in the sexual activity medicine at the University of North Carolina to ensure that he or she has the affirmative at Chapel Hill, said: “Five years ago, the quar- Annals of Parody consent of the other or others to engage in the terback would have been hit and people would The College Republican Na- sexual activity. … Affirmative consent must be have said, ‘Whoa. He really got smashed,’ and tional Committee has a new ongoing throughout a sexual activity and can celebrated it as a great hit for the other team. 16-state ad campaign that be revoked at any time.” Failing to adopt the Fortunately, we have swung the pendulum parodies a reality-TV show policies could cost a college its student finan- of concern from celebrating to saying: ‘Oh, in which women choose cial-aid money from the state. did you see that? That quarterback was wedding dresses. In the No other state has so embraced the expec- stunned. That’s illegal.’ ” Florida ad, for instance, tation that college administrators prescribe the bride prefers a dress detailed rules for campus encounters. But a called the Rick Scott number of colleges have adopted policies and Quickly, Now (“He has new ideas programs aimed at preventing assaults by cod- The University of Chicago said it that don’t break your ifying consent. The University of Wiscon- would make a series of changes aimed budget”), while her sin’s policy, for instance, requires “overt words at enrolling more lower-income stu- dowdy mother urges or actions that clearly communicate an indi- dents. … The U.S. Department of Ed- her to pick the dress vidual’s desire to engage in sexual activities.” ucation awarded $75-million in grants named for Governor Scott’s Yale’s expects “positive, unambiguous, and to 24 colleges that proposed ways of improv- Democratic challenger, former Gov. Charlie voluntary agreement to engage in specific sex- ing access and learning while keeping costs Christ (“It’s expensive and a little outdated, ual activity throughout a sexual encounter.” down. Among the winners was Southern New but I know best”). It’s hard to imagine such The California law also requires colleges Hampshire University, which wants to ex- ads changing anyone’s mind, but then it’s also to adopt “comprehensive prevention and out- pand a competency-based learning program hard to understand how a show called Say Yes reach programs” that include, among other for part-time students. … Corinthian Col- to the Dress became enough of a hit to merit practical ideas, awareness campaigns and by- leges Inc. said in a filing with the Securities parodying. INSIDE stander-intervention strategies. and Exchange Commission that the Depart- PEOPLE . A15 ment of Justice is investigating “allegations re- lated to student attendance and grade record Parlor Grand Smashed manipulation, graduate job-placement-rate IN BRIEF . A16 This Friday a just-restored Steinway Model Sometimes cultures do change—and in sur- inflation, and non-Title IV funding source A once owned by George Gershwin will get prising ways. Last week University of Mich- misrepresentations.” The company is cooper- IN FOCUS . A18 a workout at the University of Michigan’s Hill igan students joined ESPN announcers in ating, it said. Auditorium. A concert in the 1933 piano’s hon- VIEWS A22 rebuking the Michigan football coach, Brady . or will include Gershwin’s original 1924 jazz Hoke, for keeping a quarterback in the previ- orchestration of Rhapsody in Blue and selec- GAZETTE . A26 ous Saturday’s game after a Minnesota play- Open Letter tions from his opera, Porgy and Bess, parts of er’s helmet-to-helmet hit Last week Denise Ho, an assistant pro- which he is thought to have composed on the CAREERS . A31 left the quarterback fessor in the Center for China Studies at the instrument. Gershwin died in 1937, at age 38. stumbling around Chinese University of Hong Kong, published THE CHRONICLE The piano, which Steinway refers to as a the field. The uni- a heartfelt letter to the students whose rallies REVIEW Section B “parlor grand,” remained in a family apart- . versity’s athletic set off huge pro-democracy demonstrations ment in New York until last year, when Marc director, David in Hong Kong. She said she was afraid they Gershwin, a nephew of the composer, donated Brandon, lat- would be disillusioned if they did not suc- it to the university. It has since had a thorough er confirmed ceed, but was inspired by how much they had overhaul. The cracked soundboard was that the quar- accomplished: replaced, along with the original ivory terback, Shane keys and the hammer action. Morris, had suf- I went to the teach-in and saw your But if so much of the instru- fered a concus- mini-university and watched you ment is new, why keep the rest? sion. streaming between the simultane- Robert Grijalva, the assistant A Monday column ous lectures. You had come of professor of piano technology who in The Michigan Daily reflected fans’ outrage, your own accord. You oversaw the restoration, wrote saying it was “a direct violation of the NCAA were taking assiduous in a blog post: “I’ve come to the concussion policy” to let the quarterback re- notes. You broke into conclusion that the case of the main in the game, and calling on the univer- groups and talked piano is the real soul of the pia- sity to fire the coach. “If Brady Hoke cares about the meaning no, not the soundboard. It is the about his players and taking his 115 boys and of direct action, case or rim of the piano that pro- turning them into men, as he so often preach- of civil disobe- vides the indelible mark of its vintage es,” the paper’s four football writers said, “then dience, of pro- and its core sound. … I have never the first lesson he should be teaching is that test. You wrote heard a 1920s vintage Steinway pia- no win on the gridiron is more important than to tell me how no with a new soundboard that didn’t their health.” the boycott still sound like a 1920s vintage Steinway That same evening an online petition ap- made you piano.” Now you know. peared that called for the athletic director’s understand ISTOCK PHOTOS society more —LAWRENCE BIEMILLER THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION (ISSN 0009-5982) IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY EXCEPT ONE WEEK IN JANUARY, MAY, JUNE, JULY AND DECEMBER AND TWO WEEKS IN AUGUST, 45 ISSUES PER YEAR AT 1255 TWENTY-THIRD STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20037. 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