Word: genderism
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...Take gender out of the equation for a second. Who would you rather watch play? The No. 6 team in the country which has a legitimate chance at progressing far into the NCAA Tournament and possibly even winning a national championship or a sub-.500 team that lost its national ranking early on in the season? A team boasting three of the top six scorers in its league, or a team that doesn’t even have one player cracking...
...while the choice is obvious when you ignore the sex of the athletes in question, once gender is reintroduced into the conversation, the fact remains that the majority of sports fans would rather watch a mediocre men’s team than a very good women’s squad...
...Summers, who tapped Faust to lead two gender diversity task forces after his comments on women in science two years ago, called her an “outstanding scholar” and “extraordinary academic leader...
...Director of the series Steve Lin ’08. During his address, Lewis spoke about the desire in many institutions of higher learning to overcome instances of past discrimination in academia and the professional world by encouraging students to explore fields outside of those prescribed previously by gender, ethnicity, or race. But Lewis said that the hope of achieving this goal may sometimes stand at odds with attempts to respect and support the desired path of each individual student. “There is a very fine line between putting pressure on an individual student to be a servant...
Perhaps Faust will serve quite capably and admirably in the new administration at Massachusetts Hall. Perhaps her academic specialties will perfectly prepare her to write a new chapter in gender relations on the college campus. Yet we should not get ahead of ourselves...