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Last semester, Peninsula provoked widespread campus debate on feminism, with little response from the newly timid Left. Wexler herself confesses an unwillingness to write a simple letter. Do we really expect her to organize a rally? G. Brent McGuire '95 Senior Council Member Peninsula
...Brent McGuire '95, a Peninsula councilor andspokesperson, attributes the relative silencesurrounding the feminism to issue to itspersuasive nature...
...Senior Brent Lorenzen and freshman Dave Valdes followed the Esway win with a 1-2 finish in the 200 butterfly, and were themselves followed by Esway and Heilman, who tied for first in the 100-yard freestyle...
Picking on Abigail Adams first, Mayo suggests that even though she's not the "submissive hausfrau" that the "lazy reader" would probably consider her to be, that's probably the only reason Council member Brent McGuire decided to choose her. Evidently playing the part of the "lazy reader" himself, Mayo ignores McGuire's explanation of why he chose Adams 300 years after her death, or even his praise of her strengths. What Mayo seems to focus on instead is the seeming contradiction that any strong female could "recognize the protective impulse in a man, [and] also invoke the name...
...Adams? According to judge Brent McGuire, it was "refreshing to hear a feminist not only recognize the protective impulse in a man, but also invoke the name of God." Mrs. Adams apparently once wrote to her husband that she (as a woman) was "placed by providence under your protection..." The lazy reader might think that McGuire just meant to call her "a noble but submissive product of her time...