Stanford Students Want Western Civ Back
I was sympathetic to the Westerner side of this story at first: ‘Stanford students are voting on a plan to reinstate the controversial Western Civilization curriculum more than 25 years after Jesse Jackson helped kill it.’ Then I read the comments of Erica Lynn, a senior majoring in “Earth Systems,†who dismissed the Review’s proposal as “silly.†Lynn said: ‘“Stanford is already a four year academic exercise in Western Civilization and an uncritical one at that,†she said, citing a world food economy class in which her professors refer to impoverished African villages without mentioning “the role that colonialism had in shaping poverty across the global south.‒ Students can read Plato and Marx on their own time.
