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Whether speech is racist, sexist or otherwise inappropriate is a complex and contextual issue. But I think all members of our community should strive to respect another's sense of what treatment will make him feel equal and dignified, including exercising prudence about making potentially offensive statements...
Once again, the popular press has failed to truly acknowledge the real adversities of race, class and gender facing women. Instead, we are told to find the faults in our own characters and strive to become extraordinary. It is true that the women of the book did face and over come extreme obstacles, but Chellis never examines the nature of the obstacles themselves and why our society has defined them as such...
...addition, the presence of female faculty members on a university campus necessitates a sexual harassment and gender equity policy and a code of non-sexist language, Hyde said. Universities should also strive to balance committee assignments, she said, so that female faculty are not overburdened with committee work and kept from their teaching or research responsibilities...
...that patch of land among three families intertwined by treachery and revenge. Warner Shook's staging vividly mixes ritual and realism. While Schenkkan is far better at incident than character, Charles Hallahan and Tuck Milligan enact just the sort of rogues whom descendants go on talking about. The plays strive for mythic power -- and attain it. W.A.H...
Although one of the organization's primary goals is to provide a good time for itself and the crowd, Hwang says that he and his fellow bandies strive for a "tasteful, clever, and intellectual" type of humor...