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...enforce its own Social Avenue Limitation Treaty. Last week, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) notified all first-years that they were forbidden to play any version of the game Assassin. According to Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans, the game is "destructive" and "fundamentally at odds with basic standards of behavior and interaction in the College...
...absolutely agree with Dean of Freshman Elizabeth Studley Nathans that playing Assassin is "fundamentally at odds with basic standards of behavior and interaction at the college" (News, March 10). This game is a horrific example of what is commonly known as "having fun," and it must be stopped...
...response to Marc Ambinder's "Here Come the Gender Theorists," (Opinion, March 11, 1999), I would like to point out Ambinder's basic misunderstanding of gender theory. Deconstructive gender theory, which includes the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, but also scholars such as Diana Fuss, Eve Sedgwick and Kaja Silverman to name a few, examines the social meanings attached to categories of masculinity and femininity. It does not deny that anatomical sex determines whether one is male or female but suggests that the value placed on these categories is culturally determined. In the first page of Bodies That...
Gender is linked to both biology and culture, and, whatever the exact relationship is, it is not a "natural" or inherent property of individuals. In demanding that women's studies concentrators take "a half-course in basic human physiology," Ambinder implies that biology is truth--that there are genes and enzymes that make people the way they...
...absolutely agree with Dean of Freshman Elizabeth Studley Nathans that playing Assassin is "fundamentally at odds with basic standards of behavior and interaction at the college" (News, March 10). This game is a horrific example of what is commonly known as "having fun," and it must be stopped...