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Hackney's statement, it seemed, crystallized the difficulties many national universities--including Harvard--are having as they struggle with newfound heterogeneity and its backlash. But there is a fundamental flaw in Hackney's reasoning, whose implications have colored difficulties on our own campus this year. It is a twofold error: a dangerous and incomplete definition of "diversity," and a failure to recognize that at a university, open expression is, and must be, paramount...
...member of the University committee on free speech appointed by President Neil L. Rudenstine this fall, has perhaps been the most enthusiastic in taking advantage of his rights to free speech. He has attributed grade inflation to white professors afraid to give Black students a C. After surviving a backlash from those comments, Mansfield resurfaced to say that women are inherently less aggressive and competitive than men, that women are inherently less aggressive and competitive than men, that feminism has hurt the family and that women have children because they "like...
...budget proposal headed to a House vote, Bill Clinton fended off assaults in Congress from his own party. Fearing an antitax backlash among voters, moderate and conservative House Democrats demanded more spending cuts, in particular caps on Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlement programs. Clinton tried to put down the revolt at a meeting with the House Democratic caucus and the party congressional leadership. "If you'll go out on a limb," he told them, "I'll go out with you." But a more dangerous mutiny began in the Senate, where a bipartisan group led by Democrat David Boren of Oklahoma...
There has been, predictably, a backlash. The family-oriented Prodigy system closed down its "frank discussion" conference in January when the language got a little too frank for its owners (Sears and IBM). In March federal agents raided bulletin boards in 15 states searching for evidence that they were trafficking in child pornography (which, unlike most pornography, is illegal in the U.S.). Parents' and women's groups complain that sexually explicit material is still available to any youngster who can operate a modem. "The last thing this culture needs," writes Stephanie Salter in the San Francisco Examiner, "is yet another...
...recent fiction. A recent graduate student whose dissertation is published and becomes a best seller, she is catapulted into the limelight. One tends to make the inevitable comparisons between Naomi Wolf and the commercial success of The Beauty Myth, or Camille Paglia and Sexual Personae or Susan Faludi and Backlash, all currently fashionable authors who are trotted out to discuss their tomes on talk shows...