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...when the Independent ran a long article suggesting that Hubbard's course violated Title IX of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) barring discrimination on the basis of sex, the University's Title IX compliance officers had little choice but to go ahead with the investigation...
Although Hubbard asked the council not to make a general ruling on women-only seminars--on the grounds that the Harvard curriculum is little more than a curriculum in men's studies--the council finally issued a statement Thursday that does little more than restate HEW's Title IX...
Ursula W. Goodenough, assistant professor of Biology and chairman of the Faculty Standing Committee on the Status of Women, summarized the feelings of just about everyone involved when she said this week, "It's ridiculous that this should be the first Title IX case at Harvard--particularly when there's been so much discrimination from the other side...
This brings me to Harvard's use of Title IX in reverse. The intent of Title IX was to redress iniquities that have arisen as a result of an institution's history of discrimination. All the institutions that have generated our presentday Western reality and values have such a history. Title IX not only exempts programs designed "to overcome the effects of past exclusion," but "requires remedial action to overcome the effects of previous discrimination." I honestly do not understand how Title IX can be warped to apply to the selection of feminists and/or women for the kinds of courses...
Harvard and like institutions have invented an entire vocabulary of Newspeak to get around Title IX and Affirmative Action, with words like "equal access," "quality," and "standards." (Remember that George Orwell defined Newspeak as the introduction of new words and the simultaneous elimination of old ones, so as to make only the allowed thoughts thinkable.) Indeed, Harvard's tradition is so entirely based on discrimination that the present furor about the Currier House course makes one wonder where all the advocates of equality and justice have been all this time. Certainly they have not been crying with outrage...