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Monica Clark, a senior and the UNO student body president, was handed a piece of paper with a scrawled number??4212—to set her apart from the thousand or so students taking refuge at LSU from colleges throughout New Orleans. They would all leave with LSU ID’s, their passports for a semester’s study...
Recently, Harvard announced the establishment of a $50 million fund to be spent over the next decade with the goal of increasing the number of women and minority faculty. While we understand that this figure is merely a number??one that guarantees more newspaper headlines than real progress—it does show that Harvard takes the promotion of female faculty serious enough to pledge a substantial monetary commitment. Fifty million dollars cannot improve entrenched sexism within academic departments (that demands intense lobbying by Summers and his administration), but it can improve just about everything else...
Quick. Brainstorm themes for a typical tap-dancing number??cane and all—in a musical comedy. A night on the town? Sure. A suspenseful mystery? Possibly. A new love? Absolutely. But a sponge bath number in a nursing home, sung and danced by a man doomed to die in minutes? One would think not. Luckily for Harvard theatergoers, the writers of the original musical “The Life and Deaths of Mr. Plumb”—Michael C. Mitnick ’06, Robert M. Pennoyer ’05, and Kiernan...
...months have passed since the two sides began warring to varying degrees, over Summers’ managerial style, his bluntness, and his perceived sexism. The Faculty has made its statement—loud, clear, and in great number??that the current academic environment at the College cannot persist. The Summers controversy has brought to the surface latent hostilities that have poisoned the Faculty-President relationship to the detriment of all. The mass-airing of opinions that has resulted has been therapeutic for both sides involved, but has distracted them from longer term, arguably more pressing issues...
...peeping incidents have been a concern for female HLS students since orientation week last fall, when the first of five—an unusually high number??occurred...