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Hart writes that conservatives define PC as "any challenge to traditional, white, male, heterosexual" ideas. She's almost semantically accurate, and deceptively so. More precisely, though, PC is "any challenge to traditional, white, male, heterosexual" ideas simply and only because the ideas belong to someone who's traditional, white, male, and/or heterosexual. In other words, PC means to dismiss rather than to disprove. Conservatives are not at all afraid of an open marketplace of ideas. We have always believed that our ideas are better (as I'm sure the non-relativist liberals have as well), and we desire only...
Rape is ugly, violent and dehumanizing. It makes its victims fear their communities, and is a painful reminder to all civilized people of the results of not respecting the sovereignty of an individual. Rape is a crime, and rapists belong in prison. Sadly, rape has become an Orwellian political weapon with no fixed definition...
...members of the committee are representative of the school's three departments. Snow and Levine belong to the department of Administration, Planning and Social Policy; Lightfoot and Murnane represent Human Development; and Perrone is the sole committee member from the department of Teaching, Curriculum and Learning Environment...
Cambridge's Rent Control laws are not a whit different from laws depriving individuals of human rights not for personal reasons but solely because they belong to a racial, sexual, or ethnic group. A 19th century woman could not vote because of her sex, not because she was proven personally incompetent. Today, England detains Arab nationals simply because they are Arabs, not because any one of them is a proven terrorist...
...giving the AWARE committee some needed publicity. I urge people who haven't become exceedingly cynical after four years at this institution (like John and myself) to attend the events, and not just listen, but speak up as well. AWARE is definitely one group to which everyone should belong. E. Michael Bobbitt '91-'92 E. Michael Bobbitt '91-'92 AWARE Planning Committee