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...people who will be addressing the audience, Judith Tucker is one, Ms. Tucker, who is a professor at Simmons College, recently caused something of a stir at her school when she gave a presentation on Lebanon. Invited to give a brief talk on the Lebanese situation, she instead gave a half hour showing of war slides which she followed up with an address in which she described the PLO as "a humanitarian organization" working to better the lives of the Lebanese people...
After the event, Fricdan told IOP Director Jonathan Moore she was angry that her name had been used to bring people to the Forum for DSA fundraising. She was also upset that the third panelist, Ms. Magazine contributing editor Barbara Ehrenreich went "off the topic to attack me," adding. "I feel I was taken advantage...
...fact, after a year of relative political dormancy, the reorganized GLSA already shows signs of new life. As Ms. Schwartz points out, we have more women and freshmen participating than ever before (though we are far from being "almost evenly gay and lesbian"). The GLSA is providing a strong and supportive center for this growing community. It is thereby educating the larger and generally homophobic college community. Unless the lesbians and gay men here are comfortable with themselves and proud of who they are, constructive visibility (in terms of educating the non-gay and closeted-gay community) is not possible...
...wish to take issue with Amy E. Schwartz for the statement in her review of Phyllis Keller's Getting at the Core: Curriculum Reform at Harvard (October 30, 1982) concerning "Monuments of Japan" (Literature and Arts B-23). Ms. Schwartz suggests that this course, offered for the first time last fall, is a "strange compilation" and implies that it is a source for the typical frustrations of the undergraduate when dealing with the Core...
First, it should be pointed out that no student who actually took the course expressed the particular grievance that Ms. Schwartz claims. Indeed, many students found that it offered insights into the buildings and aesthetics not only of Japan but also of the environment around them. Second, the concept of selecting a limited number of monuments from the long and diverse cultural tradition of Japan has a legitimate scholarly and heuristic basis. By focusing on carefully chosen masterpieces it is possible to study in some depth certain sets of circumstances--artistic, technological, social, political, and religious--which spawn major monuments...