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Another Day, Another DD: Desiree Departs
The most interesting end-of-the-week-dump-of-the-news-you-want-buried was the Friday afternoon announcement by the White House that social secretary Desiree Rogers would be leaving her post: On Friday...
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More “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Hypocrisy: Why Elena Kagan Should Tell All…even...
I wish Supreme Court Justice-nominee Elena Kagan all the best, just as I do any woman being considered for a tough, important job. I even feel a passing kind of kinship with her, perhaps because she is...
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Hey Faculty! Your Priorities Need Alignment!
In June I wrote a post about Alexander Kemos, who faked his resume, landed a highly remunerative job at Texas A&M, rose quickly to an even more remunerative position, cozied up to the university...
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A “Chronicle of Higher Education” Expose! Kinky Sex and the English (of...
I could retell the story of Associate Professor Lisa Chavez, the English Department’s resident dominatrix at the University of New Mexico. It’s the tale of a poor creative writing teacher who,...
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Mills College President Janet Holmgren Dogged by Controversy
One of the perks of working for a college president is that occasionally you get to rub shoulders with the rich and famous. I, for example, once attended a Rose Garden swearing-in ceremony and met...
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Dig In!
“Miss” is back, ready to serve up a juicy tart of academic hijinks, scandals, and misadventures…with a whipped topping of political intrigue, hackery and hypocrisy. Get out your knives and forks and...
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New Mexico Just Got a Little More Enchanting
When last we checked in on Professor/Pimp David Flory, he was earnestly explaining that his exclusive web site “Southwest Companions” was simply providing “a safe place for guys to find female...
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The Compelling Life Story of Margaret Mary Vojtko
Margaret Mary Vojtko died this month, alone, collapsing outside on her lawn, at age 83. She suffered from cancer, although a heart attack took her life. She was beloved aunt of six nieces and nephews....
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She’s a university professor who wields ultimate and arbitrary power–for now
I’m a university professor, so I work independently and autonomously in classrooms where my only contacts are with people over whom I wield ultimate and arbitrary power. Of course, I don’t use this...
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Get Your Hands Off Me Ersula Ore I’ll Kick You In the Shins
There’s a video making the rounds of a faculty member at Arizona State University, Ersula Ore, who struggles with a police officer as he attempts to handcuff her in the middle of a city street: Since...
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More Fun with Microaggression
It’s the first of the year, and everything old is new again. Remember Seinfeld, the show about nothing? The updated version of the Seinfeld conceit, Microaggression, is being serialized on college...
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Sisterhood Ain’t What It Used to Be: Meet Triplets Caitlyn Jenner, Rachel...
Coming of age in the 1970’s I knew one thing for certain: sisterhood is powerful. As a college student, the halls of my university were chockablock with female professors of all ranks, and, in the...
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The University of Eastern Washington Denies the Truth about Rachel Dolezal
Note to Readers: On June 15 late in the day, Eastern Washington University scrubbed most references to Rachel Dolezal from the website, starting with the faculty bio I write about below. My...
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Will your Valentine be Unbearable?
o So my sister, who is “mother” to my nephew’s second-grade class, just finished baking, decorating, and glassine-wrapping enough heart-shaped cookies so that all the little tiny terrors in Ms....
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