Word: aptitudeã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...president was hoping to leave “Innate-gate” behind him for good, he’s had no such luck. The Global Language Monitor, a group that tracks vernacular trends, last month enshrined “intrinsic aptitude?? as number two on a list of the 10 “most egregious examples of politically correct language?...
...presidents—Stanford’s John Hennessy, MIT’s Susan Hockfield, and Princeton’s Shirley Tilghman—penned an op-ed for The Boston Globe that appeared to criticize Summers’ now infamous remarks on the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women in science. “The question we must ask as a society is not ‘can women excel in math, science, and engineering?’—Marie Curie exploded that myth a century ago?...
...withhold seniors’ donations until the University divested from PetroChina, a company intimately involved with the Sudanese government and by extension with the genocide in Darfur. Still more seniors were dissuaded from donating by University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks about the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women in science. Senior Gift was effectively co-opted to serve one of a number of political causes completely unrelated to the spirit of the Gift itself, even though there were many other avenues by which these divergent political beliefs could have been expressed. One part...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women in math and science led to a discourse on an issue that should be, but often isn’t, addressed. Subsequently, major papers (the Times, the Washington Post) and magazines (Time, Newsweek, the Economist) followed up on the issue, publishing what gender studies have actually shown...
Several students who spoke to FM wonder if the College administration’s renewed focus on creating a women’s center has anything to do with combating the PR nightmare caused by Summers’ infamous Jan. 14 remarks on the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women in science...