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Once again, PhD.-to-be Landsman came through. Ironic, isn't it, that a scholar about to earn his doctorate would call Jackson Browne's hit "Mister, My Eyes...
...token woman is a black Chicana fluent in Chinese who has borne 1.2 babies (not on the premises, no childcare provided) owns a PhD, will teach freshmen English for a decade and bleach your laundry with tears, silent as a china egg. Your department orders her from a taxidermist's catalog and she comes luxuriously stuffed with goosedown able to double as sleeping or punching bag. --From The Token Woman, by Marge Piercy
Schafer came to Harvard from a job with a government consulting firm as a member of the Kerner Commission that investigated riots in urban areas. She is currently working toward a PhD. in urban planning...
...Harvard's ThD. degree. That is of course wrong. Since this is an important matter to the School and to me, I would like the record to be clear: The irony that now faces us is that when the independent seminaries of the land change their ThD. nomenclature to PhD. in accordance with common U.S. understanding of such terms, the Harvard ThD. degree cannot be so renamed--and our recent graduates begin to hurt. This state of affairs is the more serious since the quality of the degree is generally recognized and amply witnessed to by the career and contributions...
...afraid of asserting themselves or winning in competition for fear of the negative consequences that may follow from winning. In fact research has shown that women who fear success in this sense do not follow careers even though they may have ample opportunity to do so--such as a PhD. and no husband or children to hinder them. Many women in our society have learned that being smarter than a man, outwitting or challenging him is not appreciated by large numbers of the male sex. Many men are simply not interested in women who are smarter, cleverer, more assertive than...