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...right around the time of elections,"says Jennifer W. Grove '94, a former Councilmember, "and having someone who was Vice Chair atthe time do something that is blatantly sexist iskind of disgusting. It was meant to be a joke, butit was in poor taste." According to many past andpresent members of the Council, poor taste seemsto be in vogue at the UC when it comes to genderdynamics. While the Council's current atmospheremay not be so openly hostile to its female membersas it was two years ago, the lack of women on theCouncil today is still alarming: out of 86members...
Garza, along with Grove and Hillary Anger '93,were instrumental in starting a women's caucus onthe Council which sought both to establish afemale network and offer younger female Councilmembers support. Their efforts were met withdistrust and suspicion from Council officials,most notably Chair Mike E. Beys '94 and Hanselman,who accused Garza of using the group as a foil forher political ambitions. (Beys refused to commenton the accusations for this article.) Hanselmaneven went so far as to write an editorial in TheCrimson accusing the female trio of "sour grapes"for having collectively lost four elections...
...advised to challenge vested interests only after being granted tenure. I found it (remember I was young) difficult to imagine that the ritual slaughter of the elders would have any appeal whatsoever to the newly tenured, since they would in effect be attacking themselves--now custodians of the sacred grove [academia...
Wayne P. Hughes Jr. Pacific Grove, California
...races. Therefore, the policy implications that ought to flow from both books is the same: justice should be color blind. Stop treating each race as if all its members were identical. That, specifically, is the burden of what The Bell Curve's authors ask. Wayne P. Hughes Jr. Pacific Grove, California