Word: mackinnons
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About 25 law students held a silent vigil yesterday outside a meeting in which the faculty was reportedly voting on offering feminist legal scholar Catharine A. Mackinnon a tenured position...
...students, who were fewer in number than usual because of a bar exam for third-years, lined the hall way in Pound Hall, holding signs supporting Mackinnon's candidacy...
...Mackinnon, who currently teaches at the University of Michigan and was a visiting professor at Harvard in 1980 and 1983, is a controversial figure due to her outspoken views on women's rights...
...MacKinnon has a long and sordid record of attacking free speech. In 1983, she authored a Minneapolis ordinance, soon declared unconstitutional, that outlawed most sexually suggestive art and literature depicting women under the guise of fighting pornography. Under this ordinance, she and her longtime collaborator, Andrea Dworkin, who believes that all heterosexual sex is rape, advocated banning from the City of Minneapolis French and Indian art films, avant garde art, and even Rolling Stones album advertisements. MacKinnon has spent years lobbying for the enactment of similarly repressive ordinances in numerous other cities and states, including Massachusetts...
...ugly and divisive as MacKinnon's sentiments are, she has a right to free speech. But her hatemongering should not win her tenure at Harvard, nor should it take the place of balanced scholarship as a required academic credential. For CCR, which claims to champion civil rights, to endorse her candidacy reflects utter hypocrisy. No civil right is more important than free speech, and few are more precious than the equal protection of the law. Only Orwellian doublespeak can justify granting a bigoted censor tenure under the guise of promoting civil rights. Who will CCR support for tenure next? Leonard...