By SARAH GARLAND

In a little foray into the higher education beat, I profile a professor who has what few would consider a desirable task: trying to make idealistic, left-leaning college students and conservative, right-leaning academics happy at the same time. His job is to take multicultural requirement in Columbia’s great books program and bring it up to par with the other “serious” courses in the curriculum. A wild guess says Musics of the Caribbean and Intro to Japanese Painting are coming off the list.

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