Would Ohio State Football Encourage Equity?
null Nov. 28, 2023 5:26 pm ETThe Ohio State Buckeyes football team runs onto the field in Bloomington, Ind., Sept. 2. Photo: Jeremy Hogan/Zuma PressWhen college administrators and professors focus on diversity, students and faculty shift their attention from the core academic disciplines and focus on shallow appearances. This distraction becomes an exercise in power dynamics, as shown in John Sailer’s “Inside Ohio State’s DEI Factory” (op-ed, Nov. 21).The purpose of higher education in the liberal arts is to enable the student to distinguish the superficial from the profound. As the Oxford philosopher John Alexander Smith claimed, a student should “be able to detect when a man is talking rot.” Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Sponsored OffersMichael Kors: Michael Kors Promo Code extra 15%JCPenney: Extra 10% Off your Order with JCPenney CouponTarget: Take 20% Off Your Entire Order - Target promo CodeWalmart: Walmart Promo Co
Nov. 28, 2023 5:26 pm ET
When college administrators and professors focus on diversity, students and faculty shift their attention from the core academic disciplines and focus on shallow appearances. This distraction becomes an exercise in power dynamics, as shown in John Sailer’s “Inside Ohio State’s DEI Factory” (op-ed, Nov. 21).
The purpose of higher education in the liberal arts is to enable the student to distinguish the superficial from the profound. As the Oxford philosopher John Alexander Smith claimed, a student should “be able to detect when a man is talking rot.”
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