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University of Colorado professor Evelyn Hu-DeHart, whom ESAC quotes in their manifesto, admits that activism and not academics is the motor behind the movement. Hu-DeHart argues that growing acceptance of ethnic studies' basic academic premise--that past social scientists have focused on elite perspectives--challenges its position as a separate discipline apart from traditional academic departments. "The challenge is to reconcile the academic goal of ethnic studies--the production of knowledge--with its original commitment to liberating and empowering the communities of color [emphasis mine]," she writes...
Throughout the 1960s, Havel wrote essays and plays that went unpublished in his native country but greatly shaped underground Czechoslovakia. Over the next decade, he was a leader of the Charter-77 movement in which he helped to produce a manifesto of Czech citizens' criticisms of the autocratic regime...
Probing deeper into the problems of modern masculinity, Leyner's essay "Hulk Couture" is sure to become a manifesto for all non-jocks living in Mather-a perfect expression of their sartorial feelings toward the body-building lifestyle. In this piece, Leyner assumes the persona of a "buff buff" who advocates losing the spotter when one pumps iron because, "When there's nothing to keep a barbell stacked with 375 lbs. of iron plates from collapsing onto your throat but your own two arms...well, if that doesn't get the ol' fight-or-flight response going, then nothing will...
...fact, Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America," compared with Perot's manifesto, is timid in attacking the deficit and ignores other major items on Perot's priority list as well. Even legislators who have enjoyed explicit support from Perot have stiffed him on such critical issues as nafta, gatt and the Administration's effort to nourish Mexico's anemic currency. When Congress was considering gatt last November, Perot warned that if the trade agreement was approved, which it was, United We Stand would consider forming a new party. Local chapters all over the country-prodded by national headquarters in Dallas...
...Manifesto for the Charles Rives. Sam Bass Warner, Jr., urban historian. Piper Auditorium...