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Anne Harrington, College professor and professor of the history of science, has been appointed as department chair, a post currently held by Allan M. Brandt...
...Canon—and she has gone on the record as pro-pornography and pro-prostitution. During her time as a columnist on salon.com, she criticized a college date rape controversy as “creakingly passé, victim-centered, [and] anti-male.” She also defended Allan Ginsberg’s membership in the North American Man-Boy Love Association, and called Ginsberg “the apostle of a truly visionary sexuality...
...everywhere, they have arranged themselves by type: jocks, preps, cheerleaders, dorks, punks and gamers, all with tables of their own. But when they are finished chugging the milk and throwing Tater Tots at one another, they will drift out to their classes and slouch together through lessons on Edgar Allan Poe and Pythagoras. It's the promise of American public education: no matter who you are or where you come from, you will be tugged gently along the path of learning, toward graduation and an open but hopeful future...
...poetry editor, over her release of previously unpublished poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, calling the manner of Quinn’s editing and publication “reprehensible.” According to The New York Times, Vendler’s scathing review of “Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments” in the April 3 issue of The New Republic marks a “literary clash of titans.” “The real poems will outlast these, their maimed and stunted siblings,” Vendler wrote about...
...issue of steroid use in baseball has dominated off-the-field headlines for the past several years and particularly in recent weeks, following major league commissioner Allan H. “Bud” Selig’s announcement of an extensive investigation into steroid...