Where
Have All the Flowers Gone?
Where have all
the flowers gone?
Long time
passing
Where have all
the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all
the flowers gone?
Girls have
picked them every one
When will they
ever learn?
When will they
ever learn?
Pete
Seeger, 1961
I
did not realize until I read all the lyrics that there was a powerful story
in the lyrics, http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/flowers-gone.shtml.
I
wonder whether we would ever learn. From
the New York Times, July 3, 2008
The’60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire
by
Patricia Cohen
MADISON,
Wis. — When Michael Olneck was standing, arms linked with other
protesters, singing “We Shall Not Be Moved” in front of Columbia
University’s library in 1968, Sara Goldrick-Rab had not yet been born.
When
he won tenure at the University
of
Wisconsin
here in 1980, she was 3. And in January, when he retires at 62, Ms.
Goldrick-Rab will be just across the hall, working to earn a permanent spot
on the same faculty from which he is departing.
Together,
these Midwestern academics, one leaving the professoriate and another
working her way up, are part of a vast generational change that is likely to
profoundly alter the culture at American universities and colleges over the
next decade.
Baby
boomers, hired in large numbers during a huge expansion in higher education
that continued into the ’70s, are being replaced by younger professors who
many of the nearly 50 academics interviewed by The New York Times believe
are different from their predecessors — less ideologically polarized and
more politically moderate. ...
When
it comes to those who consider themselves “liberal activists,” 17.2
percent of the 50-64 age group take up the banner compared with only 1.3
percent of professors 35 and younger. ...
“Senior
people evaluate us for tenure and the standards they use and what we think
is important are different,” she said. They want to question values and
norms; “we are more driven by data.” ...
But
as scholars across fields argue, the historical era in which a generation
develops — the Depression, wartime or peaceful affluence — is a defining
moment for its members. “My generational paradigm is the end of the cold
war,” said Matthew Woessner, a 35-year-old conservative and political
scientist at Penn
State
Harrisburg. He and his wife, April Kelly-Woessner, a political scientist at nearby
Elizabethtown
College
who is a year younger and a moderate, have been analyzing faculty survey
responses for a new book. The notion that campuses are naturally radical or
the birthplace of social movements, Ms. Kelly-Woessner said, was specific to
the 1960s and ’70s. “I think the younger generation does look at it
differently.” …
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company.
If
you answer the multiple-choice questions below and e-mail to lessonanswers@mymontebello.com
with “Lesson answers” in the subject field, you will be credited toward
a “certificate of recognition in community affairs” to be awarded in
2008 by a local nonprofit organization.
1. What is the article
about?
(a) A new generation of
professors on university campuses has different views.
(b) The circumstances in
which we grow up affect our views.
2. Should we be
concerned?
(a) Yes, because the
younger generation of professors cannot inculcate leadership without itself
leading.
(b) No, because the
younger generation of professors is addressing issues, but in a different
way.
September 18, 2008