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...Council, the only body able in theory to speak on behalf of all the members of the College, "is just another extra-curricular activity" and "suffers from a lack of legitimacy." He also allows that the council's illegitimacy stems in part from the fact that "[it] is a bastion of white males." So far, so good. When representatives of campus progressive, ethnic and gay-lesbian groups, as well as other concerned individuals, began meeting last spring to discuss the council's failings, we pointed to the same issues in just the same terms...
...event was groundbreaking for the school, which was long regarded as a bastion of all-male conservatism and had been criticized for being slow to admit females...
When former Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur announced his retirement last spring it seemed at last as if change were in the air at the bastion of conservatism across the river...
While it may be true that the U.C. is a bastion of white males, its obvious wooing of the Asian American Association--and its membership uncannily similar to the editorial board of Perspective--present more of a threat to these incumbents than a genuine desire to work together in a common goal of reform...
...compared to other campus publications, this paper looks even better. The Perspective (bastion of bleeding heart liberalism), the Salient (mouthpiece for conservative self-righteous venom), and the Peninsula (a seething brew of libertarian, fundamentalist, and fascist viewpoints), are often either condescending, ignorant, or outright offensive on racial issues...