Lavender Graduation is all the rage in some circles these days, especially at the U. of Maryland where event sponsors at the LGBT Equity Center note that “each LGBTQA+ graduate will receive a rainbow tassel…
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Western Civ in the Crosshairs—and A Glimmer of Hope
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on the website for the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College. Students at Indiana University-Bloomington recently went into panic mode at the sight of a Dominican…
MLA Deconstructs Middle East
When the Modern Language Association (MLA) deconstructs something, it stays scrambled. Thousands of English professors attend the annual MLA conferences and just about every English Department is represented there. At this year’s meeting in Austin,…
Feminists, Gays and Crip[ple] Theory
In one of the few crowded roundtable discussions at the recent MLA conference in Vancouver, which was far from a discussion, four female professors went over their papers on feminist, queer and disability theory (the…
LGBT Movement’s “New Morality”: Making Gay Okay
Author Robert Reilly’s latest book, “Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior is Changing Everything,” dissects the homosexual movement’s strategy of indoctrinating Americans on the pros (but not cons) of LGBT behavior. The new norm…
NPR On Weird College Courses
Even National Public Radio (NPR) occasionally realizes that some college courses are straight from la-la land.
Visual Aids @ MLA
A professor from George Mason University ran a slide show of naked lesbians to accompany her presentation at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention in Chicago this year.
Environmental Activism in English Literature
He felt that he was “the Rip Van Winkle of the sustainability group” at the MLA and mentioned that twenty years ago, this was an issue at the MLA’s annual convention.
Is Cornell in America?
Public schools used to assign “What my country means to me” as an essay topic. One wonders what one would get from such an exercise if it were given to Cornell undergrads who got a chance to take the full panoply of courses available there under the heading, American Studies.
NC “Scholars” Assail GOP
At one of the recent meetings, some of them “openly bragged about their arrests, fights with cops, and the help with legal entanglements they’ve received from the NAACP. More than 900 arrests have occurred since the protests launched in April.”