Word: helene
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Well, maybe Mansfield's not, but others have indicated their desire to join my crusade. Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler stated that "[students calling her by her first name] would not bother me at all." Besides, she added, "Leadership must be acknowledged, not claimed, unless you're Hitler...
...There is nothing more dreary than having toteach people who are not interested in yourcourse," says Porter University Professor ofEnglish Helen H. Vendler...
Boston Magazine also named the ten smartestpeople in Boston. While Rudenstine didn't makethat list, three other Harvard professorsdid--Loeb University Professor Walter Gilbert '53,Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson andPorter University Professor Helen H. Vendler
Under pressure from reformers, the American bishops also faced a surprise countermovement among traditionalist women. St. Louis, Missouri, housewife Helen Hull Hitchcock, 51, gathered five friends at her dining-room table in 1984 to write a petition defending the Pope's teachings and attacking ideologies that "seek to eradicate the natural and essential distinction between the sexes." They passed the petition along and found themselves with an astonishing 50,000 signers. Hitchcock now runs the lay lobby Women for Faith & Family, which has prodded the hierarchy rightward. Their efforts are complemented by a coalition of antifeminist nuns that received Rome...
Mansfield's statement amounts to a smear of a first-rate community of both women and Black scholars at Harvard--scholars like Helen Vendler, Susan Pharr, Barbara Johnson, Sara Lightfoot, Susan Suleiman, Elaine Scarry, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Preston Williams, Anthony Appiah, Christopher Edley, Charles Willie, Orlando Patterson, to name just a few. Mansfield ought to apologize. Martin L. Kilson Professor of Government