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...littered with dictatorships, torturous regimes and the deaths of those journalists who try to expose the truth. Perhaps the most famous case is Rodolfo Walsh, the Argentine writer who, using the jargon of the subject, was “disappeared” the day after he wrote an open letter criticizing the Argentine government...
Ginsberg wrote in a letter: “Dylan is a major American bard & minstrel of the XX Century, whose words have influenced many generations throughout the world. He deserves a Nobel Prize in recognition of his mighty and universal powers...
Last June, 26 senior faculty women sent a distressed letter of response to University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, expressing their concerns about the precipitous slide in tenure offers. This fall, 73 female senior faculty members agreed to sign a statement urging the administration “to assign its highest priority to reversing the downward trend of the past three years in FAS senior offers to women.” Summers and Kirby agreed to meet with 50 female senior faculty members on October 6 in the Barker Center. Both expressed concern...
Hochschild is wary of whether or not women candidates are held to the same standards as men. “‘Aggressive’ in a letter of recommendation is a term of praise for a man, but not for a woman,” she says. “We sure do like hard-driving and really assertive men, but not in the case of women...
...that the situation was rosy, even in the heyday of the 90s. Former-Associate Professor of Government Bonnie Honig was denied tenure in the spring of 1997 despite lavish praise and recommendations from her department and peers in the field. Fifteen female senior faculty members wrote another infamous letter, this time to President Rudenstine, insisting that he reconsider the denial on the grounds that Honig may have been at a disadvantage because of her gender. No action was taken, and in the summer of 1997, Honig accepted a position at Northwestern University, where she now holds a tenured political science...