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...endured nearly all of them: rape, prostitution, battery. Now 55, she has recently published her thirteenth book, a memoir that describes how she went from being jailed for protesting the Vietnam War to launching a crusade against pornography. It is the latter that earned Dworkin and her collaborator, legal scholar Catherine MacKinnon, the most infamy: The civil ordinances in which they defined pornography as an actionable violation of women’s civil rights passed in some cities but were subsequently shot down on First Amendment grounds...
Craig D. May ’02 of Dunster House was named a Canadian Rhodes Scholar this past December. May, a biomedical engineering concentrator, is a native of Newfoundland. He plans to study bio-statistics and mathematics and has applied to St. John’s College at Oxford...
...letter “Misjudging Doris Kearns Goodwin” (March 18), Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe says in reference to Overseer Goodwin’s plagiarism: “I do not minimize that error; it was one no scholar should make, and one Doris Kearns Goodwin would be the first to admit she should not have made.” I don’t agree that Goodwin would be “the first” to admit what Tribe calls her “error,” something most recognize as plagiarism...
...checking back in every last one of the 300 or so books she cited to make certain that she had not somewhere mistaken a phrase of her own for a phrase of the author to whom she was footnoting. I do not minimize that error; it was one no scholar should make, and one Doris Kearns Goodwin would be the first to admit she should not have made. But there can be no doubt that, unlike the student who turns in someone else’s work as her own and hopes the instructor won’t notice...
...very fact that a number of worthies have seen fit to trumpet their own impeccably high standards by suspending or canceling roles and engagements in which Goodwin would have performed both brilliantly and honorably suggests a rather crude moral and scholarly calculus on their part, but that is a subject for another time. My only purpose here is to help set the record straight by speaking up, as one scholar who values his own integrity and reputation for meticulous attribution as much as anyone could, for one of the truly outstanding historians of our time, who eloquently brings to life...