The Observer, April 14, 2006
Volume XXXVIII, Issue 24
Federation meant an integration of science and arts
To the Editor:
The article on Humanities Week in the March 31 issue began with a comment regarding the "week" bringing "a more arsty side to a science-oriented campus." Will you stop it! Case Institute of Technology was a "science-oriented campus" where anything that smacked of humanities was patronizingly denigrated with the characterization of "artsy side." But Case Western Reserve University is supposed to be a broadly-based liberal arts institution, which happens to have good science programs. Humanities aren't just some pointless polishing of your geeky personality, frosting on your engineering/sciences cake.
They are the cake. When are you all going to realize that here?
Thomas P. Boyer
CIT '66-'67
