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...address his disregard for logic. Lacaria argues that because there was no radical feminism in the 19th century South, there could not have been problems of gender. This argument only needs to be written explicitly to expose its incoherence. More importantly, however, gender was a crucial part of how people, especially Southern male politicians, understood the political climate of antebellum America...
...Apotheosis of Doctor Faust Will Radcliffe Dean sell Harvard’s soul to intellectual oblivion? By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA Sunday, February 11, 2007 Harvard has ensconced a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse...
...editors: Shame on Christopher B. Lacaria ’09 for his uninformed and anti-intellectual column (“The Apotheosis of Dr. Faust,” Feb. 11) disparaging President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust, whose selection has been greeted by real celebration by those on the more “academic” side of the Harvard spectrum, whether in science or the humanities. Shame, too, on the many undergraduate commentators (visible in The Crimson’s online edition) who make similar comments and claim to be “disappointed” with the selection...
...Heather MacDonald of the right-leaning Manhattan Institute. The conservative National Association of Scholars charges that Faust comes to the presidency “out of a career whose foremost characteristic has been its strong feminist bent,” while The Crimson’s own Christopher B. Lacaria ’09 has called Faust “a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse...
Indicative of this gender-heavy focus is a recent column in The Crimson by Christopher B. Lacaria, "The Apotheosis of Doctor Faust," in which his attempt to evaluate Faust’s selection lingers solely on the gender issue. Lacaria suggests that Faust is somehow unqualified to lead the University because of her academic focus on women’s studies, comparing her obviously feminine position as head of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies to former President Lawrence H. Summers’ supposedly masculine post as Treasury Secretary. The column essentially pits masculinity against femininity, and, to no one?...