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...than a slumber party shovefest when they quarreled.More recently, the political hardcore group Born Against’s indignation over NYC brocore band Sick of It All’s label-enforced censorship led to an hour-long radio debate. In a polarization that haunts hardcore to this day, SOIA came across as bonehead sell-outs, and Born Against as self-righteous aesthetes.But feuds rarely reach such lofty abstractions, centering more often on clothing styles and record sales. Most hilariously, the dude from Fall Out Boy ridiculed the singer of the Killers for wearing too much makeup. Emo boy, methinks...
...DIED. Soia Mentschikoff, 69, Russian-born legal scholar and educator who specialized in commercial law and broke down many professional barriers: in 1947 she became the first woman to teach law at Harvard, in 1951 the first at the University of Chicago; from 1974 until her 1982 retirement, she was dean of the University of Miami law school, one of the first women so appointed at an accredited U.S. institution; of cancer; in Coral Gables...
Other women under consideration are Carla A. Hills, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Shirley M. Hufstedler, a Los Angeles appeals court judge; and Soia Mentschicoff, dean of the University of Miami Law School...
Troopers' Tongues. At the top of the profession, the law school professorships and law-firm partnerships are still largely closed to women. Yet Lawyer Soia Mentschikoff, 49, has achieved both. She was made a partner in a prominent Wall Street law firm in 1944, taught law at Harvard from 1947 to 1949, since 1950 has been at the University of Chicago Law School, teaching a range of topics from arbitration to an advanced course in "Law in the Behavioral Sciences." Her wise observation is that by acting naturally as a woman, "appealing to the emotional component present...
First woman appointee as faculty member in the history of the University Law School was announced yesterday by Dean Erwin N. Griswold as being Miss Soia Mentschikoff, who will assume her duties next fall instructing a course in Sales...
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