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...location for the Maxwell Dworkin building--the new computer science and electrical engineering facility--has been selected, according to outgoing Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin...
Already, the attics of Pierce and Cruft have been converted to offices, and lab and classroom space in these buildings are often inadequate. Twenty million dollars of the donation will go to fund a new computer science/engineering building. Named Maxwell Dworkin after the donators' mothers, this new building will cost a total of $26 million and will be about 80,000 square feet. It is tentatively scheduled to replace the present Aiken building...
...building, to be named Maxwell Dworkin in honor of the donors' mothers, will create a new home for faculty and students in computer science and electrical engineering. Offices in those departments are currently scattered between Pierce Hall and the Aiken Computation...
Such findings may cheer antipornography activists; as feminist writer Andrea Dworkin puts it, "the whole purpose of pornography is to hurt women." Catharine MacKinnon, a professor of law at the University of Michigan, goes further. Women are doubly violated by pornography, she writes in Vindication and Resistance, one of three essays in the forthcoming Georgetown Law Journal that offer differing views on the Carnegie Mellon report. They are violated when it is made and exposed to further violence again and again every time it is consumed. "The question pornography poses in cyberspace," she writes, "is the same one it poses...
...everyone agrees with Dworkin and MacKinnon, by any means; even some feminists think there is a place in life--and the Internet--for erotica. In her new book, Defending Pornography, Nadine Strossen argues that censoring sexual expression would do women more harm than good, undermining their equality, their autonomy and their freedom...