Preface Now I will you to be a bold swimmer (Walt Whitman) How to Use this Book Introduction: The University in Your Life Chapter I: Who Am I? Who Is My Generation? Who Shall I Become? Becoming Myself (Richard Schmitt) On Self-Respect (Joan Didion) On Excellence (Cynthia Ozick) And Man (William Saroyan) The Lover of Women (Sue Miller) Story of My Life (Jay McInerney) Sex Without Love (Sharon Olds) A Romantic Education (Patricia Hampl) For Idealism in Youth (Jeffrey Gordon) Music (Allan Bloom) The New Lost Generation (David Leavitt) You Did This to Us (Damiel Smith-Rowsey) In Defense of Today's Students (Susan Day) Killing Us Softly: Gender Roles in Advertising (Jean Kilbourne) Poem to Half White College Students (Imamu Amiri Baraka) Ways to Live (Charles Morris) What Really Matters? (Plato, Bertrand Russell, Robert Nozick) Fruit Gaterhing (Rabindranath Tagore) Backpack Almanac: Money Chapter II: What Is A University? What Faculty Expect of Students (Edmund S. Morgan) The Development of Thoughtfulness in College Women (Blythe McVicker Clinchy) Claiming an Education (Adrienne Rich) Unlearning to Not Speak (Marge Piercy) Learning and Growing Up (Jacob Neusner) Why I Teach (Richard Feynman) Migrations of the Heart (Marita Golden) Grading Your Professors (Jacob Neusner) The Badlands and the School (Loren Eiseley) Remembering Charles (Houston Baker) Backpack Almanac: Education What is the Case for Broad Learning? A Symposium: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas ([Literature] (Ursula Le Guin) On the Subway (Sharon Olds) The Paradox of Perfection [Social Science] (Arlene Skolnick) The Family as a Charged Institution (Pepper Schwartz) The Legacy of Raizel Kaidish: A Story (Rebecca Goldstein) The Last Cottage (David Leavitt) The Metaphysics of Oppression [Philosophy] (Jorge Valadez) Man and Nature: The Future of Global Environment [natural science] (Jessica Tuchman Mathews) Almanac: The Environment Revolutions Gone Bad [History & Political Science] (Stanley Kober) Now Everybody [for R.W. Fassbinder] I [Fine Art] (Robert Longon) Backpack Almanac: Contemporary Life Pretend Not to Know What You Know (Adrian Piper) Chapter III: University Education: For What Reasons? To What Ends? The Autobiography of an Uneducated Man (Robert Maynard Hutchins) Teaching the Fish the Meaning of Water (Charles Frankel) The Recoloring of Campus Life (Shelby Steele) Loving Blackness as Political Resistance (bell hooks) An Apprenticeship in Good and Evil (Wendell Berry) The Training of the Third Pig (Norman Peterson) Impersonal Interests (Bertrand Russell) The Opening of American Minds (Richard Rorty) Going Home Again (Richard Rodriquez) Living in Two Worlds (Marcus Mabry) The Never-Ending Story (Frank Conroy) Chapter IV: Everyday Matters College Thinking (De Sellers) The Time of Your Life (De Sellers) How to Learn in Class (De Sellers) How to Study (De Sellers) Center Stage: Performing on College Tests (De Sellers) Walking the Tight Rope (De Sellers) Thoughtfulness and Sexuality (De Sellers) Glossary
