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The resignation of feminist literary critic Carolyn G. Heilbrun from the Columbia faculty should be taken as a strong signal to university administrators across the nation: Feminist scholarship needs support. Heilbrun, a tenured professor who had been at Columbia for 32 years, says she gave up her position this year...
Targeting men who attend professional baseballand football games with leaflets is central toKatz's strategy of reaching men who are helping toperpetuate the "jockocracy," a value system thatidolizes male sports such as football andmarginalizes all other activities. These men,often little league coaches, are in positions toinfluence young boys, and...
"We have to be vigilant. We need to keep an eye on the ceilings and make sure people don't go above the ceilings unless they have taken proper precautions," he said.
Johnson said the police department always emphasizes that students should always be vigilant. "They need to think defensively, to walk defensively," he said.
Instead, hooks remains faithful to a vigilant progressive politics, asking what price Black Americans must pay to have the system work for them. Calling the hearings a "reinscription" of the status quo, hooks sees Thomas as "fundamentally allied with...the interests of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy." To hooks, Thomas' being...