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Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez walks for a different reason. "I have never liked sports, and I don't like them now. My only sport is walking, and I only do that when I need to catch...
...wish to comment on Professor Jorge Dominguez's petulant but understandable protest against being telephoned at home by students and colleagues. His complaint is fair. If he has indeed made it clear that his privacy should be respected in this way, then violations of that injunction are rude. Perhaps he is justified even in his suggestion that this understanding should be implicit within the academic community or in any other professional or work setting. Of course he must know that the individual policies of faculty and graduate students vary so widely here that it must be difficult for students...
...deploy rational argument against such dreck? Professor Dominguez's own confession to an "antiquarian and deeply sexist" bias is the same horribly coy refusal to tackle his own destructive prejudices that I have seen again and again among men his age. It has probably constituted the Harvard faculty's most powerful--because unanswerable--defense against what it perceives as the invasion of hordes of Amazonian scholars, armed with Ph.D.'s (and Lord knows who gave them those), shrill voices, and--worst of all--the gall (shall we say) to call a mild-mannered male professor in his own home during...
...thinking of calling a faculty member of graduate student at home on work-related matters: don't. Even if you think you must, don't. And if the world is coming to an end, don't wait past 9 p.m. The children might be asleep. Jorge I. Dominguez Professor of Government
...Dominguez rejected that argument saying. "If the idea is a ggod one, we should adopt if and not be afraid of facing other proposals along the way." He added, "We should not turn drown one good proposal just because we fear we'd be too gutless to turn down others...