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Dillon Professor of International Affairs Lisa L. Martin became the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) first diversity advisor on Wednesday, assuming a post created in the wake of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ controversial January remarks on women in science...
...Martin, who will also chair the Standing Committee on Women, becomes a special advisor to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, and the rest of the Faculty, on matters relating to gender, racial, and ethnic diversity, Kirby announced in a press release...
...creation of Martin’s post was recommended in May by two task forces on women created earlier in the year. Martin will be charged both with implementing the task forces’ recommendations and with coordinating FAS’ efforts to recruit and retain women and minority faculty...
...write about race in this book with a great deal of sadness. When I was in high school and college in the ?60s, the civil rights movement was the most important movement and the most moral movement of my time, and of the 20th century, for that matter. Martin Luther King, in my opinion, was one of the five most important, decent Americans since our founding as a nation. What happens after Martin Luther King gets assassinated? We get Jesse Jackson, we get Al Sharpton. If the implication is that you can?t write about Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton...
Disney has also had the occasional misstep in China. In 1996 Beijing blocked the company's films after Disney backed Martin Scorsese's Kundun, which dramatized the life of the Dalai Lama and China's invasion of Tibet. (Beijing considers Tibet an integral part of China.) Mulan, which tells the story of a girl who fought in the Chinese emperor's army in place of her crippled father, was originally rejected for showings in China. Hollywood executives saw that as retaliation for the political incorrectness of Kundun, but an anonymous Chinese official quoted by the country's Xinhua news agency...