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...first undergraduate uprising was the famous "butter riot" of 1766. Bad food had been a student complaint since the University's founding, and the rebellion started when Asa Dunbar, grandfather of Henry Thoreau, confronted an administrator and complained: "Behold, our butter stinketh and we cannot eat thereof." For inciting the ensuing demonstration, Dunbar was demoted by the Faculty, but the students rallied behind him and agreed to boycott breakfast. The Corporation and Overseers conceded that the butter was rotten, but they insisted that the students apologize for their insubordination or resign. They apologized...
Last week the SEC filed a 55-page civil complaint in New York federal court charging that Winans, Brant and three others had engaged in a scheme of "fraud and deceit" by trading on the basis of inside information not available to the public. If found guilty of the SEC charges, they will be forced to pay back the money they made, but they will not face jail sentences. A separate criminal investigation against them is being conducted, however, and that could lead to prison terms...
...were chosen with the help of "delegate committees," groups set up with money mostly from labor political action committees (PACS). Mondale has disbanded these ill-advised committees and even promised to give the money back, but Hart plans to hammer away at the issue. He has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission, and he keeps goading Mondale to return the money (which Mondale claims is about $300,000 but the Hart camp hints is at least twice as much). So far, both voters and the press have largely dismissed the delegate-committee squabble as little more than...
...explanation for sexual harassment on campus is that faculty are daily bombarded with the temptation of young women who are so physically desirable that they cannot be ignored. People typically respond to a report of sexual harassment by asking if the victim is pretty. After hearing a coed's complaint, deans and department heads frequently express shock at a faculty member's behavior by commenting. "She isn't even that attractive. "The attempt to establish the woman's beauty as a cause of sexual harassment diverts attention from the real power issue. It is a standard was of discounting...
Dworkin and MacKinnon couch their discussion in terms of establishing equality between the sexes, but their real complaint is that women don't receive equal respect. Pornography is a double insult; it denigrates women and has fun doing it. But turning to the law to endorse a stiff-necked Victorian worship of womanhood's worth is hardly an answer. It implies that there is a moral right to extract respect from the disrespectful. A widespread perception of feminine inferiority infringes on the real equality of the sexes, but this perception must be changed by conversion, not coercion...