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...college with that campaign. The Review proceeded to harass Dartmouth's gays. The paper printed the names of all members of the school's Gay Students' Association, some of whom had not yet come out of the closet. And The Review launched a drive to revive the sexist custom of crowning a "queen" during Winter Carnival, outraging the school's female minority...
...Dartmouth Review, Dartmouth College's conservative undergraduate weekly, drew strong criticism from both the faculty and undergraduate council last week for publishing allegedly racist and sexist articles...
...streaking, hype and quadraphonic sound. "A modern man or woman," she says, "may work as an ombudsman, a psephologist, a spokesperson, a gogo dancer or a deejay." But the disturbed newspaper reaction came from the fact that Lloyd's updating featured an assault on sexism. Indeed, the word sexist has been added to the new edition of the thesaurus, right after "biased, twisted, jaundiced." Women are no longer listed as a sub-category of mankind but of humankind. And among the exemplars of "excellence," "superman" has been joined by "wonderwoman...
...deploy rational argument against such dreck? Professor Dominguez's own confession to an "antiquarian and deeply sexist" bias is the same horribly coy refusal to tackle his own destructive prejudices that I have seen again and again among men his age. It has probably constituted the Harvard faculty's most powerful--because unanswerable--defense against what it perceives as the invasion of hordes of Amazonian scholars, armed with Ph.D.'s (and Lord knows who gave them those), shrill voices, and--worst of all--the gall (shall we say) to call a mild-mannered male professor in his own home during...
...antiquarian and deeply sexist note. I might say all of these examples deal with women. I used to think that women were more likely to distinguish between the office and the home because they may have reflected more on how their father's career in the olden days over-whelmed mother and children. Thus I confess that I regret at least one feature of the widespread professionalization among women at Harvard. Women are now apparently just as likely as men to disregard the autonomy of the home. Of course, just as many examples can be given of the same long...