Word: sexistence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no law that I am aware of that prohibits Crimson reporters from printing heresay and anonymous accusations, just as there is no law prohibiting them from publishing incendiary sexist tracts. There are only shared standards of responsibility and respect, the same standards that are violated when inappropriate and unwanted sexual remarks are made. I can only hope that The Crimson will see fit to realign itself with these principles and to learn from its mistakes. Peter T. Ellison...
...academic sphere either. The existence of a separate institution such as Radcliffe helps validate and give credibility to studies of what are seen as "women's issues." The commentary by Douglas V. McLellan '94 Feb. 2, 1994 in The Independent is an example of the thinly veiled sexist arguments used to belittle Women's Studies as a less "serious, respectable, challenging" concentration. How deplorable it is that a physics concentrator should fashion the over-facile equation "Many magnas and summas awarded in Women's Studies=Women's Studies is an easy concentration." Since McLellan appears to have culled his knowledge...
Does this make Radcliffe sexist and discriminatory? Frankly, such a claim is an exercise in over-simplification. Have men ever applied specifically to Radcliffe College? It they were to do so, if they were to step out of their masculine mainstream into a context where the focus is women, I for one would support them. I believe it would be a positive experience for male undergraduates to deal with the sense of being outnumbered, over whelmed and out of their natural habitat. But it should be the men who make the effort to adapt to Radcliffe, rather than the other...
...course we might decide to outlaw sexist or racist speech. But then, to be fair, we would also have to outlaw saying the Lord's name in vain. If a fundamentalist Christian can maintain civility in the presence of infidels in her classroom, why can't we show the same forebearance toward those we consider racist and sexist? There is no good reason why the state--and by extension the university--should treat bigots, evangelical fundamentalists, and politically-correct proselytizers any differently...
...case poses a more serious problem for the Harvard Police Department, which is still reeling from last year's charges of racial harassment by its officers, sexist behavior by its chief, influence peddling by its top lieutenant and abuse of authority by the head of its criminal investigations division...