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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject: Fleecing Academe, Feminist Style |
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From the WSJ and James Taranto's "Best of the Web", another outrage from the progressives of Academe...
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BY JAMES TARANTO
OpinionJournal
WSJ Online
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Great Moments in Higher Education
Here's an interesting angle on the Larry Summers kerfuffle. The Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel notes that one of the Harvard president's harshest foes is Denice Dee Denton, the new chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz:
Denton is making headlines . . . for challenging controversial statements made by Harvard University President Larry Summers, who suggested that innate differences between the sexes could help explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers.
Summers made the comments . . . at an economic conference attended by Denton. Denton questioned Summers sharply during the conference, saying she needed to "speak truth to power." She told the Harvard president that she believed his assertions had been contradicted by research materials presented at the conference.
The Sentinel reports that the alliterative administrator has taken a very personal interest in the advancement of female scientists:
The University of California created a $192,000-a-year job for the partner of the new UC Santa Cruz chancellor, a move that is being criticized by employee unions. . . .
UC officials defended hiring Gretchen Kalonji, the longtime partner of incoming Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Dee Denton. They described Kalonji as a highly qualified professor who will be an asset in her new job as director of international strategy development.
Kalonji, a professor of materials science at the University of Washington in Seattle and an expert in international education, also is getting a tenured professorship, perhaps at UCSC.
In case the meaning isn't clear, that's "partner" as in a Boston marriage. A Sentinel editorial takes the unions' side, saying UC owes "a public accounting of why this job is so important," and noting: "So far as we can figure out, UCSC has never had a 'director of international development,' and a reasonable person would ask why that's so important now."
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Uisguex Jack
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I find it interesting that her given expertise is 'materials science'. This can be very sensitive stuff when it comes to national security. Not something we want to be bringing in more foreign nations to the fold, while in a time of war.
Maybe she could take the same job, but have Sandy Berger pay her from the coffers of the PRC. |
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MSeeger
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Dr. Summers is right. Men and women *are* different. And despite the efforts of the feminist movement, there aren't all that many women who are interested in math and science careers, even if they now have the opportunities to pursue those careers.
The problem is that feminists refuse to give women the freedom to *be* women. When the movement first started, young women were encouraged to pursue high powered careers like the law and medicine. Nowadays, even men expect a woman to work outside the home. Feminists look down their nose at those of us who choose to stay at home, or who choose to go into service professions such as nursing and teaching.
Somehow, I can't seem to find anything wrong with Dr. Summer's statement. I think anyone who has both sons and daughters could verify that. Despite years of attempted gender neutralisation by feminists, boys and girls continue to behave differently. Go figure.
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GM Strong
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Seems a certain recently resigned NJ "Governor" had a similar problem in addition to being hopelessly corrupt. I guess it depends on what you mean by 'corrupt'.
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