Word: hysterias
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...hushed vigil" would have been more appropriate than the "self righteous...[and] thuggish" protests which took place around University Hall. What about our constitutional right to assembly? Harvard may be called an "ivory tower," but the laws of the land still apply within its gates. What she deems "political hysteria" is perhaps well-deserved outrage at an administration which has done too little, too late to deal with the issue of sexual assault on campus...
Nothing could be further from the truth. The presidential scandal has merely served to separate those who understand feminism from those who would turn it into a mindless and meaningless hysteria. Feminism has not, does not and will never claim that all women are automatically right. Feminism is, as the popular bumper sticker proclaims, "the radical notion that women are people." Feminism suggests that a woman's place in life is determined by each individual woman...
...Never before in my lifetime on university campuses have I seen students demanding a penalty for a classmate harsher than the one being considered by the administration. Much as I credit the seriousness of rape, I have to wonder at the political hysteria that has turned students against one of their own. Why this vindictiveness against a student already punished by the law and expelled from the campus for the next five years? Why the vendetta, the drumrolls, the slogans...
Never before in my lifetime on university campuses have I seen students demanding a penalty for a classmate harsher than the one being considered by the administration. Much as I credit the seriousness of rape, I have to wonder at the political hysteria that has turned students against one of their own. Why this vindictiveness against a student already punished by the law and expelled from the campus for the next five years? Why the vendetta, the drumrolls, the slogans...
...finally over. After five years and nigh on $50 million of phony, partisan investigations and more than a year of media hysteria and round-the-clock cable coverage, the scandal has finally come to a close. The Senate vote will mark an end to this ugly chapter, and congressional Democrats and Republicans will make peace and begin solving the problems of the next millennium...