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Diversity is a term bandied about our campus with the reckless abandon that literary scholars toss around "intertextuality" or "gender" as a verb. We chair committees, establish organizations and plan events with the expressed purpose of bringing about greater "diversity" in the student population or the faculty. Diversity in this...
Some military training contributes to a misogynist attitude, says Joan Zorza, director of the National Battered Women's Law Project in New York City. "A man is criticized by being told he's acting like a woman -- a 'pussy' -- to humiliate him and make him tougher," she says. "That often...
These members of the phylum Final Clubicus descend from obscenely wealthy ancestors whose names are inscribed on all important buildings. They are the people who will bar me from getting a job at the top 100 corporations in America, for having written this piece. Their strength, like that of Jockici...
The Green Cup has been enthusiastically supported by Michael Lichten, director of the FAS office of Physical Resources, and has led to significant reductions in energy and water use by heightening student awareness of resource conservation. Spin-offs on this idea have include the recent conversion of all the fluorescents...
It's a sad melody, slow chorus from Verdi'sNabucco, part of which translates roughlyas "Oh, my country, so lovely and so lost! Oh,remembrance, so beautiful and so despairing!"