The War on Christeastgivingdayoween
Clearly a Godless liberal. While conservatives are declaring war on the Muslim world, liberals are apparently launching an assault on the holidays.* This time it’s Thanksgiving. Michelle Malkin is in a tizzy because the Seattle School District sent out a letter to its staff letting them know that Thanksgiving may be a difficult time of [...]
...read moreWhiteness and Blogging: An Interview Request
A well-timed entrance, if I do say so myself. Hey y’all, hope your week’s wrapping up nice like Saran. My name is Katie, and I’m an undergrad at Harvard surviving writing my senior thesis on whiteness in U.S. feminist and pro-feminist blogs. Evidently my interview with Jill the other day wasn’t too traumatizing: she’s generously [...]
...read moreMore Nooses
Ugh. A hangman’s noose was found hanging on the door of a black professor’s office at Columbia University Teacher’s College on Tuesday morning, prompting the police to start a hate-crime investigation. Detectives with the New York Police Department’s hate-crime task force were investigating whether the noose, which was discovered on the fourth floor of the [...]
...read more8th Century Scholars
This professor is fantastic. He was fired from his job for telling students that the story of Adam and Eve should not be taken literally — students apparently felt the professor was “denigrating their religion.” But his responses to the situation are hilarious and spot-on: “I’m just a little bit shocked myself that a college [...]
...read moreThe Leaky Pipeline and me
In my department here at Big Name University, 30% of students receiving undergraduate degrees are women. 15% of students receiving master’s degrees are women, and 7% of doctoral students. I’m not sure what the numbers are for assistant professors hired, and for professors given tenure, but I’m sure they follow the same pattern. At every [...]
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