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Student groups expressed impatience with this bureaucracy in at least one meeting this spring when members of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and other groups arrived at the council to urge that the council censure the Pi Eta Club, a men's social group, for an allegedly sexist news-letter, RUS members were frustrated at the council's procedures, which made them wait until the end of the meeting to discuss their proposal, failed to make it on the docketed agenda. Despite the criticism, council members say these procedures are a prerequisite for credibility with administrators. "The procedures...
Lewontin and his co-authors point out that ostensibly objective studies such as those done by Burt are merely tools which these scientists use to confirm a racist and sexist status quo. Biological determinism is just as subjective as any political theory, Lewontin asserts, and must be considered as such. He writes...
Occasionally, the authors can become heavy-handed in their rhetoric. In discussing the fallacy of biologically-based gender differences, for example, they assert that they "...will show that they [conventional sexist studies] represent a systematic selection, misrepresentation, or improper extrapolation of the evidence, larded with prejudice and based in poor theory...
...harassers' motives and possible psychological makeup, they include chapters on female faculty members who do not feel themselves in a position to intervene on behalf of female students; on the politics of lodging and following through complaints, and on the difficulty of related problems such as "sexual hassle," or sexist and offensive remarks in the classroom, which do not threaton directly but reinforce women students' awareness of their lack of maneuvering power. Nevertheless, their basic insight rings out clearly: such confusion is no excuse to let harassment continue. Nor is the issue so confusing, as some college administrators like...
...contentions of these activists rest upon two shaky assumptions. The first is that pornography directly fosters a sexist or aggressive attitude towards women. Studies have attempted to demonstrate this, but the most they have been able to show is a correlation between these attitudes and pornography. Some have pointed out that the increasing availability of pornography has coincided, with a large increase in sexual assaults. But most experts believe that rapes were grossly under-reported in the past, so the real increase in the number of assaults can only be guessed at. Furthermore, the role of pornography is not well...