Word: minervas
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...marble mosaic floors, up monumental stairways, past trompe I'oeil wall panels, rich brocaded drapes and gaslight-era crystal chandeliers to the newly bronzed dome, the 66 rooms resound with memories of cattle barons, gold-rush millionaires and homesteaders from earlier eras. One carefully repaired mosaic depicts Minerva deep in thought, accompanied by the state symbol: a grizzly bear. That symbolic partnership of classical restraint and belligerent frontier exuberance not only characterizes the intent of the capitol's original builders, but speaks for the restoration itself. Says Architect Raymond Girvigian, the project's chief historian, "History provides...
...Minerva flies only at dusk," said Josh Korzenik '79, quoting Hegel but describing the Lowell House owl, formerly the Yard owl, Bio Labs owl, and Busch-Resinger...
...discrimination? Or is the whole episode but a timely reminder that male chauvinism--so petty, so desperately entrenched--is still very much alive and kicking amongst the Harvard male elite? Is not an apology forthcoming from those three intrepid churls who had the boorish temerity to intrude where Minerva and her daughters oppressed sought sanctuary from the Circean male...
...problem altogether. As we all know, when men prohibit women from clubs or activities that are exclusively male, it is not only a case of chauvinistic stupidity (after all who but a blind, misogynistic male would prefer the company of gruff, hoary men to the enlightened grace of Minerva's daughters?), it is also a case of overt hostility, nothing short of predatory masculine regression. We have seen the results of this barbaric intransigence--four thousand years of patriarchal domination, constant war, social oppression, genocidal atrocities too numerous to mention. Therefore it is the height of masculine imbecility...
...incoherence), since "dogmatism and 'correct line' politics are usually the sign of weakness in a political movement." In keeping with this pluralistic approach, the Sourcebook has kind words for groups ranging from the reformist NOW, which seeks the best possible deal for women within the system, to the escapist Minerva Astrology Collective. The overwhelming emphasis, however, is clearly on women within a sexist society fashioning their own separate institutions embodying the feminist principles of egalitarianism and collectivism...