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...Mullin inaccurately reports our conversation. The article's quoting my assessment that the University is unlikely to win the case is wrong. I feel that the University is not certain of a victory because life is uncertain. I have repeatedly stated that the Business School is not a discriminatory, sexist environment, and Barbara Jackson was, on balance, treated like any other candidate in the tenure process. Professor of Business Administration
...think there is some merit to Barbara's case,although I don't feel this is a sexist and highlydiscriminating environment," Herzlinger said. "Inever felt the University was likely to win thecase. I think Barbara's charges are very serious...
Students are addressing a wider range of issues, from local problems to international conflicts. At Dartmouth College last week, students opened a women's center as part of their effort to change sexist attitudes left over from the all-male enrollment 16 years ago. At Yale University, students are concerned with divestment and union organizing as well as community work such as tutoring high school students. Across the country, students are concerned with racism, sexism and the homeless in America and divestment from South Africa...
Consider these assertions: for centuries "sexist attitudes" have tainted Roman Catholicism. Even today some priests "assume they have the right to dominate women." Nuns feel "alienated"; lesbians speak of the "pain of exclusion." Women are "underrepresented or not represented at all" in church administration. A "significant number" are convinced that becoming priests will be the "only way to attain full participation." Many Catholic women feel that the official teaching against artificial birth control is "oppressive." Some are upset that "the dialogue about abortion appears to be closed...
...first time, however, the text is alive with direct quotes from participants in those often heated discussions. "We wanted the letter to be authentic, not just bishops speaking but women also," explains Chairman Imesch. A sample zinger from Savannah: "I maintain membership in a church that is blatantly sexist." In Fort Worth, women complained that the ban on birth control meant "finding peace of mind only after childbearing years were over or husbands had died...