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...meetings, great emphasis is placed on recognizing "male chauvinism." Members compare women to oppressed minorities and castigate themselves as oppressors. They profess to believe, in the words of a University of Wisconsin professor, that "just as the first step for a white man in handling racial prejudice is to confess his own racism, so we are trying to deal with our own chauvinism." How? The general strategy advocated at most men's-lib sessions is to stop calling women "broads" or "chicks" and to take on more responsibility for birth control, child care and housework...
...must honestly confess I don't enjoy losing"-Harvard's Harry Parker...
...meeting, Weinrub had put forward no opinion whatever on how Land should be questioned-and as a result, his accusers, with the active participation of CRR members, launched into an inquiry of Weinrub's political views. One CRR member brought the questioning to a crescendo by asking Weinrub to confess that he would have helped prevent Land's speech if the South Africa issue went unresolved...
...time Councillor Crane got up to give the main speech of the evening most of us had been eliminated on earlier rounds. I must confess to missing Crane's explanation of his tin can lid necklace but I felt I had an excuse. The 125th centennial dinner was my only chance to relive the myth of former CRIMSON city editors who used to write their council stories drunk after a night at Igo's. Next week it would be back to the issues...
Maybe one should have learned by now not to be surprised at anything the Harvard administration is willing to do, but I confess to having been amazed to read in Tuesday's CRIMSON that Nikitas Sioris, the Greek Minister of Education and Religion, was to be not only officially welcomed as a visitor to the University, but even accorded VIP treatment. Knowing as I do, partly from reports of friends whose knowledge is first-hand, but also from newspaper accounts, of the criminal acts of Sioris' ministry (in annulling elections to university chairs, in summary removals of incumbents, in overt...