Although not much of an athlete, I’m a big sports fan. Actually, that’s a serious understatement—I’m a rabid sports fan, especially of pro baseball (Boston Red Sox) and college basketball (Providence College Friars). These are passions that go beyond rational explanation, especially in my line of work. My colleagues, if they care at all, probably file my fanaticism about the Red Sox and the Friars in the “there goes Morgan again” file. Over the past several years, the problem of... Read more
My growing up years coincided with the heyday of NASA and the process of living up to John F. Kennedy’s challenge to send a manned mission to the moon and return it safely to Earth by the end of the 1960s. I remember my mother sobbing when three astronauts died in the Apollo 1 fire on a Cape Kennedy launching pad in 1967. I was watching on television at my grandparent’s house on Christmas Eve 1968 when the Apollo 8... Read more
AdYesterday NPR’s show “On Point” had an hour-long segment entitled “The Humanities Studies Debate,” in which several “experts” debated whether the humanities are worth studying when they do not specifically equip a student for a profession. As the director of a large, interdisciplinary liberal arts program on my campus required of all freshmen and sophomores (80+ faculty, 1800+ students), as you might expect I have something to say about this. Six months ago I was asked by our publications people... Read more
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