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...consulted in the preparation of the report were two part-time teachers and Rush Welter. He describes Welter, an American Civilization teacher with whom Parker had been publicly intimate for some time, as "a faculty maverick whose views had for years been contrary to those of his colleagues." Professor Paglia adds that "there was a feeling that educational policy was being made in the boudoir." All of this has, of course, had the predictable and unfortunate result of clouding what Gail Parker actually proposes, and it will continue to make it easy for torchbearers of the status quo to dismiss...
...Parker and seemed to go beyond the controversial proposals. Said dissident Trustee Ross Zucker (Bennington '74): "People have learned not to like her. She was young. She was a woman. Bennington did not look deeper than that. It should have. She's an elitist." Literature Teacher Camille Paglia accused Parker of "disgusting manipulation. She has created a feeling of queasiness that was never here before." Furthermore, some complained that she was remote and aloof from faculty and students...
CAMILLE A. PAGLIA New Haven, Conn...
CAMILLE A. PAGLIA...
Wolf at the Door. In spite of his bitter news, Italy's Constituent Assembly cheered him when he addressed it in Italian, sprinkled with Broadwayese. When he reminded the Italians that UNRRA had poured into the country $450.000,000 of supplies ("quello non é paglia-that ain't hay"), the city of Rome gave him a silver replica of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus. To an aide, La Guardia whispered: "Is this for keeps?" When the aide nodded yes, LaGuardia smiled, patted the she-wolf on the rump and said: "This beats anything we ever gave...