Word: sexism
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Many faculty members and college administrators disagree, and are making the going rough for fraternities and sororities. Last fall the faculty at Bucknell University voted to abolish all such clubs, blaming them for promoting "racism, sexism, elitism and anti-intellectualism." Bowdoin and Wesleyan are pressuring their fraternities to go coed or face possible sanctions...
...remaking the past in the image of their desires. If 18th, 19th and earlier 20th century society should not have been so dominated by white Christian men of West European ancestry, they reason, then that past society should be reinvented as pluralist and democratic. Alternatively, the racism and sexism of the past are treated as inextricable from -- and therefore irremediably tainting -- traditional learning and values...
Clayton Williams, the Republican nominee for Texas Governor accused of sexism, and Gus Savage, the Chicago Democratic Congressman accused of anti-Semitism (see NATION), are battling for the title of most outrageous politician. How do they stack...
...callers phone in with the amusing thoughts and opinions we would expect, a random sampling of the minds of the population which make a show like Champlain's popular. Yet amidst this humor are the troubles of modernity--racism, sexism, child abuse, rape, teen pregnancy, drugs, etc. While Bogosian's play is comic, its intention is in no way farcical. The problems of the culture exemplified in talk radio are of course very real, and the people treat seriously their calls and the opinions expressed in the show...
...academic setting where students have been demanding increased minority and women faculty hiring and where women have begun to speak out against subtle--and not so subtle--sexism in the classroom and in textbooks. Women's History Week is the academic counterpart to such protests; studying scholarly work by and about people who have been left out of most history books is a protest against the current homogeneity of today's academy...