jan 1, 1988 - Stanford Canon War erupts for two years

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See LindenBerger article. Canon war received major media attention, prompted by Black Student Union's objections that the course was racist and harmful to students and the recent publication of Bloom and Hirch's works...."The two-year debate that began with the Black Student Union's complaints resulted, as so often within contemporary academic culture, in a compromise. After a year and a half of deliberations by a task force appointed by Stanford's provost and then after several months of debate in the Academic Senate, the latter body authorized a new course entitled Cultures, Ideas, Values. The succession of nouns making up the title was selected so that the course could be known by its initials, C.I.V., which evokes the old Western Civilization (traditionally called Western Civ), while omitting only the now-controversial adjective."

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