A quartet of professors suggest that women in STEM fields should perhaps literally get an A for effort.
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A quartet of professors suggest that women in STEM fields should perhaps literally get an A for effort.
That’s what the U. S. Department of Education wants to know.
The old joke is that those who can’t do teach, and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne has been teaching his brains out.
Apparently they don’t think he’s ready for the Nobel Prize.
The event’s description sought to “dig past the surface conversation surrounding polyamory and open relationships” and examine “the ways soisl [sic] identity impact the conversations and the embodiment of open and polygamous [sic] relationships.”
Was it because they ran out of whiteness to abolish?
Perhaps it stands to reason that if campus conservatives have no freedom of speech, they are not free to complain about it either, at least on campus before they actually go to court with a first amendment case.
You might ask the sages who issued culturally appropriate warnings beforehand.
Maybe they’d be better off at the beach.
Proposals to force colleges and universities to boycott, divest from and sanction (BDS) Israel keep failing in the most left-wing of enclaves, such as the Modern Language Association (MLA). Nevertheless proponents of the measure keep putting forth BDS propositions with increasing stridency.