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By Tom Palaima and Al Martinich
As the new year approached, our current factionalized politics made us aware once again how many Americans don’t see the dire need of others in our own country. This perhaps explains why the Dallas Morning News reported in May that conservatives wanted The Great Gatsby to be banned from schools. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s portrayal of how the privileged rich ignore the suffering their actions cause the poor might give students wrong ideas, like social consciences. While thinking such thoughts, we received an email from Jay Hartzell, president of the University of Texas, to the UT Austin community dated January 2. What matter of importance might it be addressing on a Saturday afternoon? We wondered. ....

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