Word: theda
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Controversies sprang up sporadically this year, arousing emotions in several parts of the University. The most publicized stir arose when the Sociology Department's senior Faculty members voted last fall not to recommend Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, for a tenured position. Those who voted against Skocpol--whose book, States and Social Revolutions, won one of the profession's highest awards--said they did so on the basis of her academic work. But some members of the department speculated that Skocpol's gender may have had something to do with the decision...
There are a host of other problems that show the University is still bound by the not-so-glorious burdens of its past. Affirmative action wins verbal praise from the University, but most of the women who go to the Faculty Club are still guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior Faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure...
Some charge that gender discrimination--like that alleged in a grievance suit filed this year by Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, whose department denied her promotion to a tenured position--has blocked women from advancing into tenured posts. Women, they note, constituted 3.4 per cent of the 1979-80 Faculty (when comparative statistics were last compiled)--a figure below Michigan University's 6.8 per cent. Stanford University's 6.3 per cent, MIT's 5.2 per cent and Yale University's 4.5 per cent. Several say instances of racial discrimination have impeded minorities from gaining promotion toward tenure...
...dropper slips into near-unconsciousness and drops names instinctively without realizing it. (Ringo keeps telling me he's trying to stop but I just don't believe him) Nor do the references make any sense whatsoever: they become for the dropper as (God, I hope things work out for Theda) vital an element of speech as inhaling and exhaling--occurring inexorably and reflexively. (Why won't Woody just realize he's peaked?) This is a horrifying state (I wonder if Marion will ever work again) of affairs because the dropper's speech and thought patterns are rendered virtually...
...OPPOSING FACTIONS in Theda R. Skocpol's grievance against the Sociology Department agree that Dean Rosovsky made a wise decision in advancing her case to the next step in the tenure process, and we concur. Rosovsky was right to accept the unanimous judgment of the three-member Faculty committee investigation the 33-year-old associate professor of Sociology's charges...