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...creators of F-Word, Vanessa V.Pratt ’08 and Katharine E. S. Loncke ’08, took diversity as a guiding principle in planning the conference over the past year. The composition of the event’s student panel, which took the stage after McCarthy??s remarks, reflected a carefully assembled cross-section of viewpoints. Margaret C. D. Barusch ’06 gave a comprehensive set of remarks, with her discussion of transgender issues expanding into questions on the borders of feminism. “Poverty is a feminist issue. Racism...
...students can take a class on the history of “queer” culture in the United States. Called WGS 1151: “Sex, Rights, and Stereotypes: ‘Queer’ Culture in the United States from Stonewall to Gay Marriage,” McCarthy??s course will cover the rise of gay liberation, the AIDS crisis, religion and homosexuality, gays in the military, the trans-movement, and the gay marriage debate...
...that is, except the superhuman Murrow, who uses his position as the face of CBS’ popular “See it Now” news broadcast to air McCarthy??s abuses to millions of viewers. His fastidiously fact-checked exposes are rewarded by all-too-familiar accusations of bias, but as played by Strathairn, Murrow is far too hard-boiled to crack under such intimidation tactics...
...late 1940s and early 1950s, The Crimson came to stand out from the ranks of most university newspapers for its coverage of McCarthy??s communist hunts and other questions of academic freedom...
...nationally televised Army-McCarthy hearings helped turn public opinion against McCarthy, leading to the Senate’s formal condemnation of him at the end of the year. As McCarthy??s influence waned, fears of communist infiltration lost their salience at Harvard and across the country...