Word: wheelock
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...Connecticut industrial town. Steven Hirsch, chairman of the adult film studio Vivid Entertainment, delivered a lecture entitled, “The Business of Pornography: How Vivid Made It Mainstream.” Hirsch’s appearance at Yale did not come without criticism. Gail Dines, a professor at Wheelock College and anti-pornography activist who spoke at Harvard this fall, said that bringing Hirsch to Yale in thiscontext was “one of the first times that a major pimp pornographer was sanitized by an Ivy League university.” “Steve Hirsch...
...have fun in section) to your suitemate (a tie on the door doesn’t always mean there are visitors). But “Pornography and Relationships,” an address delivered last Thursday by Gail Dines, professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College, made every man and hand (Dines neglected to mention the finger tricks of the fairer sex) uncomfortable about ever enjoying these cinematic features again. “Every time you jerk off to porn, on some level you are jerking off to some woman’s misery...
...speaker Gail Dines implored her Fong Auditorium audience last week to “get out in the streets” to fight the crisis. Dines, who told me she considers herself a “radical feminist,” is a professor of sociology at nearby Wheelock College, where she studies the relationship between pornography and mainstream culture...
...back to the success of Star Wars. Over the last 30 years, Star Wars-linked merchandise has grossed a galactic $9 billion. "What was different about Star Wars was that everything you saw on the screen you could get a toy of," says Diane Levin, professor of education at Wheelock College. In the early 1980s, at the height of Yoda figurine hysteria, the toy and entertainment industries successfully lobbied for the deregulation of children's television, allowing them to base animated TV shows around popular toys like G. I. Joe and the Care Bears. Only recently, however, did Hollywood start...
...Carter Partnership Award went to “School Readiness for All,” a Roxbury preschool education initiative spearheaded by national non-profit Jumpstart in collaboration with Northeastern University, Suffolk University, and Wheelock College...