Word: sexism
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Lastly, Mansfield contended that the "Tell Someone" leaflet is a violation of academic freedom because it provides an absolute definition of sexism. While this may be true, the leaflet itself does not purport to serve as any type of authoritative statement, and certainly does nothing to prohibit professors from seeking their own definitions in the classrooms. In the interest of practicality, some definition must be given without a lengthy philosophical discourse to justify...
...Democrats and the Republicans seem now to agree on ending special privileges based on race. They seem to be heading toward a colorblind affirmative action," he said. "The problem with this is that racism and sexism are not things of the past. A pattern of discrimination based on race still exists...
...also said the "Tell Someone" leaflet, which is distributed by Harvard to all students, represents a violation of academic freedom because it provides an absolute definition of sexism...
...course, the new Commons will take aim at the growing strongholds of "anti-intellectual, highly social, high-risk activities." No, Epps is not talking about Harvard's 11 all-male final clubs, those bastions of sexism, elitism and alcoholism...
...DIFFICULT TO BE A YOUNG BLACK filmmaker like John Singleton. His race tends to impose racism on him as a subject. His youth and his status as a generational spokesman oblige him to assume a particular attitude, an outraged political correctness that extends to other, nonracial matters (notably sexism). His audience, which is also young, meanwhile makes, or seems to make, contradictory demands on him -- for violently dramatic confrontations on one hand; for hopeful, or at least not entirely bleak, conclusions on the other...