Rakshak Adhikari Staff Writer The Departments of English and Political Science co-hosted an “Interfaith Symposium on Diversity, Community and Justice” last week. The event was meant to be the first of a series of interdisciplinary conventions on global, intercultural and cross-cultural issues. The diversity of the panel itself, however, appeared to be confined to the Abrahamic faiths, as neither Buddhists nor Hindus were represented. A clear evidence of this limitation was that when asked about diversity in their faith groups, only one panelist talked about the diversity of ideas and…
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