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...More vocal than the calls for political and military reform are pleas for social change, especially for women. With an increasing number of women attaining university degrees, complaints of meager career opportunities are rising. Because Wahhabism forbids the free mixing of the sexes, educated women are mainly confined to jobs in teaching, nursing and social services that do not put them in contact with men. "We have got to change," says a well- educated Saudi woman in Dhahran. "Some fear that we are like sponges that would soak up the negative with the positive from the West...
...deriding the presumed wealthy by virtue of their socio-economic position has suddenly become easy liberal sport. It seems almost un-democratic not to have a deep and vocal contempt for those whose families are on a high rung of the socio-economic ladder. Classism has become cool...
...recent months, several conservative campus organizations, ranging from the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) to Peninsula to the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, have launched a vocal campaign against what they describe as a single, univocal campus left. Concentrating their attacks on gay rights and women's rights, these groups have sought to portray themselves as embattled crusaders for morality in a spiritual wasteland...
Included among the officials is Lawrence Watson, a former assistant dean at the Graduate School of Design, who was laid off in June in the wake of large budget cuts. Watson has been one of the University's most vocal advocates of affirmative action...
Included among the officials is Lawrence Watson, a former assistant dean at the Graduate School of Design, who was laid off in June in the wake of large budget cuts. Watson has been one of the University's most vocal advocates of affirmative action...