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...with what is, and because we have hope that things can be made better, that we work so constantly to implement our own definitions of improvement. I’ve often made my column a place to air these grievances, rhapsodizing on old favorites like the Core, the Living Wage, and what I—as an overzealous, History 1661-taking junior—called the “vanishing life of the mind...
...troublesome regions safe for industrial intrusion—there’s the infamous “Toxic waste memo” of 1991, from which one choice line should suffice: “I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.” Summers later claimed variously that he was kidding and/or that those weren’t his own words. In any case he signed them, and nobody is laughing...
...what there is a shortage of is unabashed feminism. Bold, in-your-face tactics were successful for the Living Wage Campaign, but women risk being labelled whiny and uptight when they employ them. With every step, feminists feel compelled to consider their image, which can slow down their momentum...
...have learned through my work with the council that very little gets done without the explicit approval of the Dean of the College or the Dean of Undergraduate Education. I worry that the merged position will require such a degree of prioritization that students will have to wage overtly political battles—not unlike the recent preregistration fight—to have adequate attention paid to their non-curricular needs. While this approach might yield favorable results on the few topics that excite the student body at large, a number of less popular, but nonetheless important, issues will slip...
...difference.” The reasons for this seem intuitive, and in your gay innocence, you may even quote to me the old saw that opposites attract. But differences of any kind rarely (some say never) come without differences in power. Mapped onto genital differences are wage differentials and strength gradients. The sexy dialectic of master and slave is played out every day between lovers and friends, defining our relationships as much as it disturbs them...