Via PJ Doland, you really cannot make this stuff up:
Priya Venkatesan taught English at Dartmouth College. She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of “French narrative theory” that it amounted to a hostile working environment. She is also readying lawsuits against her superiors, who she says papered over the harassment, as well [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Academia'
They Argued With Her? In Academia!?
May 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments
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Surely Lucy Won’t Yank the Football Away This Time!
April 30th, 2008 · 28 Comments
It’s a little depressing, on multiple levels, to see Jessica Valenti and Pam Spaulding celebrating because protesters at Smith College managed to shout down some bigoted halfwit who’d been invited to give a speech to the College Republican group on campus. Apparently, the “awesome feminists of Smith forced [anti-gay speaker Ryan] Sorba out after a [...]
Tags: Academia · Sexual Politics
We Don’t Read Much, Do We?
March 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments
The latest chapter in the hilarious misadventures of Concerned Woman for America Matt Barber involves blowing a fuse over an Illinois high school’s addition of the Tony- and Pulitzer-award winning play Angels in America to their curriculum. Though Barber avers that it “takes a lot” to shock him, he writes (emphasis mine):
The book is replete [...]
Tags: Academia · Language and Literature · Law · Stupid Shit
Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet?
November 6th, 2007 · 8 Comments
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‘Cause Everything Is Rent
October 30th, 2007 · 7 Comments
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Friendly Advice
October 29th, 2007 · 6 Comments
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First You Get Down On Your Knees, Say a Rakaat, Then Reprise…
October 24th, 2007 · No Comments
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Horowitzofoppism
October 23rd, 2007 · 6 Comments
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Barry Beyerstein
June 27th, 2007 · No Comments
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Red Alert!
June 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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