Word: deans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic example is the letter which Assistant Dean for Minority Affairs and Race Relations Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle recently released. Commenting on two recent incidents of racial insensitivity, she asked the campus to pay attention to its language, so as not to make others feel excluded. But the incidents she described trace the line from the old racism to the new perception of insensitivity. To many, the letter was a parody of the kind of demands which minorities now make...
...acknowledge that the first incident was clearly offensive, we are likely to question the dean's concern about the latter event. By linking the two, is she not trivializing racism? After all, no offense was intended by referring to the 1950s as a "care-free" era. Must we always mention Jim Crow when we refer to a pre-1970 decade...
...same token, the dean said she was responding to student complaints. Minority students on campus took the poster to be offensive, an indication that perhaps many on campus would like to return to the 1950s when, in the words of jazz great Gil Scott-Heron, the movies were in black and white and so was everything else. The distrust is great. But we are reluctant to acknowledge that the distrust is legitimate. Somewhere along the line we have lost patience with the demand for sensitivity, and, as a result, we have become immune to those who feel injured...
...federal judge's verdict is expected shortly in the case of Barbara Bund Jackson '66, former associate professor of industrial marketing, who charges she was denied tenure at the B-School in 1983 because she is a woman. Jackson is suing the University and Business School Dean John H. McArthur for a tenured post at the school, attorney fees and $847,000 in lost income...
...cruelties inflicted in the name of orthodoxy (by the Inquisition) and political conquest (by the invading French and their guerrilla opponents): these possess him as they have possessed no other artist before or since. Seen through his encyclopedic vision of folly and cruelty, Goya's Spain is more like Dean Swift's Ireland than Voltaire's Europe...