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...1980s, and he attributes the rarity of these incidents in recent years to a shift in societal norms.“Its a lot like the civil rights revolution--once its all over, you think how could people have tolerated having separate drinking fountains for black and white people? How could anybody have allowed a situation where women who were students would be exploited by older men?” said Putnam.But Marine and Rankin also emphasize that many students may still experience harassment but not come forward. According to Rankin students may be afraid of burning bridges if they...
...imminent change that grips the world into which we graduate, I believe it fitting to start at another time—1969—a time as unknown to us graduates as the uncharted waters beyond our Commencement. That year, change was in the air, Nixon was in the White House, and Vietnam was on everyone’s mind...
...While Republicans today could learn an enormous deal from Reagan’s style of thinking and communicating, they would err tragically by emulating all his positions. Much has happened in the 20 years since he vacated the White House. The GOP urgently needs to recruit experts who understand how and why global economic and political trends have shifted. With most politicians spouting prepackaged boilerplate, such thoughtful analysis by Republicans is hard to find these days...
...whom most legal analysts do not consider a liberal intellectual heavyweight to counter Justice Antonin G. Scalia, or the decision to delay repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, suggest Clintonian moderation. I retain great hopes for the next four (or eight) years of this White House. Alexander Hamilton famously said, “Those who stand for nothing fall for anything,” and I believe that Obama will continue to stand up and to stand for the right answers...
Perhaps I was lucky in that I started out post-graduate life free of a clear path. I graduated from college in 1963, the year that Betty Friedan fired the shot heard around the world and ignited the Feminist Movement—at least in my white, middle class, college-educated world. It is hard for students today to understand how momentous it was to read The Feminine Mystique: how staggering it was to grasp that the path I imagined when I entered college was far too limited. My subsequent path, therefore, was always built upon conflicting expectations about what...