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...increased diversity in the graduate school "pipeline" to academia could eventually help address complaints about the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' (FAS) lack of ethnic and racial diversity, said Joseph J. McCarthy, assistant dean for academic planning...
Nothing churns up publicity like the spectacle of feuding feminists. Just ask Camille Paglia. With her rancorous condemnation of writers like Gloria Steinem and Naomi Wolf, Paglia vaulted from the mossy groves of academia to the glossy pages of Vanity Fair. Now comes Katie Roiphe, 25, to play the part of heretic in the feminist crusade. In The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus, Roiphe targets what she calls the "rape culture" spawned by college feminists who claim that no woman is ever safe from the threat of rape or sexual harassment...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences' new administrative dean, Nancy L. Maull, started work Monday and will serve as a link between academia and administration, according to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles...
...League university, a white Southerner accredited in the civil rights movement, a defender of Robert Mapplethorpe against Jesse Helms. In April, Hackney seemed the natural choice to be President Clinton's nominee to head the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the agency that dispenses federal grants to academia (about $160 million in 2,200 grants last year). But in this post-Lani Guinier period, the past makes Hackney ideologically suspect. Once he may have been in the catbird seat; now Hackney may be a sitting duck...
Still, there are questions raised by the leap from academia to policy-making, despite the successes of figures such as Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan...