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...care what happens in the privacy of individual's homes, we object strongly to public display of women performing sexual services. This kind of public portrayal of women in necessarily demeaning (no equivalent depiction is ever seen of mennor should there be). While it may be legal to cloak pornography under the guise of advertising, it is morally irresponsible and in poor taste to do so. Society has the moral right to demand reasonable limits as to the public image of women. To establish a society based on equality and on mutual respect, the degradation of women in advertising, must...
Departmental autonomy and the apparent subjectivity of tenure and promotion criteria allow departments to cloak discrimination by paying only lip service to the search for qualified women (though in Nolan's case no search was even necessary). While standards continue to go unchallenged as somehow objectively correct, the History Department subverts the progress of qualified women further by inconsistently evaluating candidates even given their standards. "There is no question that the history department seriously underutilizes women," Phyllis Keller, Equal Employment Opportunity Officer for the Faculty, said recently. The department's decision to deny promotion to Mary Nolan is an example...
PRESIDENT CARTER'S State of the Union address calling for a United States military buildup, draft registration and a Persian Gulf Doctrine tragically confuses machismo with determination. Carter is trying to cloak the emptiness and ineptness of his three-year-old foreign policy by relying on the political bromides that have swept generations of politicians into office. His political grandstanding obscures the fact that our present crisis is in many ways the product of our inability to enact a coherent energy policy...
Although in previous elctions faction leaders have made token statements of support for the party leader that cloak their own maneuverings for leverage, this time the top factions heads refused to support Ohira. Instead, they called for his resignation--he complied on November 9. During that week, as Ohira fought to regain power and form a government, the Japanese public got a fascinating glimpse of the depth and breadth of political divisions within the LDP and the potential obstructiveness of the system. As the faction leaders jousted, it became clear that behind their hatred lies an issue...
...College day began at sunrise with morning prayers and a breakfast of bread and beer. Students were never permitted to leave their rooms without their coat, gown or cloak, and the administration looked askance at students with long hair, curled hair, and even parted hair