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...company and something familiar.”When the group started struggling, Mohamed says she helped resuscitate Gumboots, taking over its teaching and choreography, in addition to helping with costumes.She recounts collecting bottle tops from the pubs around Cambridge, using a nail and hammer to make shakers for the group??s boots. She said that the bottle tops and shakers were supposed to represent the chains of the miners.Even though Gumboots was a part of the Harvard African Student Association when she joined, and included many African students, Mohamed says the group also represented an opportunity to expose...
...Houses, according to Adams House Master John G. “Sean” Palfrey ’67. Palfrey said a final decision about reshaping the resident dean’s assistant position would come next week, after a student-Faculty subcommittee—called the College Working Group??reviews budget proposals. Some House administrators, who wished to remain unnamed, added that “voices were raised” at last week’s meeting. The assistant to the resident dean is responsible for a wide array of administrative tasks, including the maintenance...
...Vuuren’s self-congratulatory Nebraska-bashing may indicate the group??s sincere hopes of effecting positive change, but such a vision also embodies the elitist idealism and lackluster social theory that characterizes the campaign. In this affair, the old adage rings true: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Van Vuuren and his colleagues have fashioned themselves as warriors of gender equality while failing to consider what they’re promoting—essentially, a program that misrepresents the reality of modern sexual violence and reduces women to passive victims...
...take care of themselves. That is a notion that, when reinforced, is unlikely to help women to feel more in control of their sexual interactions. And this is perhaps the cherry on the sundae that is MenSpeakUp’s failure—however benevolent its intentions, the group??s very basis is an act of dominating women, not of empowering them...
...revamping itself, MenSpeakUp had a chance to style itself as a bearer of straight talk and a mandate for cultural change. Instead, it chose to promote old rhetoric and stifle the chance for new debate. The group??s entry onto the scene will do little more than to push the chance for real dialogue farther away from the surface. Inevitably, the people this hurts the most are the true victims of sexual violence whose stories are drowned out by the distractions of an exaggerated and intellectually bankrupt movement...