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The Young and The Feckless: Cash vs. Cachet: The Potential Intern's Quandary
One thing you'll notice if you spend any time following youth issues in the media is that coverage comes in waves. The Pew releases a report, new employment stats for the quarter come out, etc. and all of the mainstream outlets take a turn at reinventing the wheel via their own spins on the story... Read more »
The Biotic Woman: My Enviro-Oscars Roundup
Even before I did my stint in a graduate film program, I was a pretty big fan of the Academy Awards. Though I've gotten increasingly less glamorous in my old age, I still enjoy the consistency of the red carpet style. But in terms of the environmental effects of the Academy Awards, I can only shake... Read more »
Bound by Raw Survival: Working Class Women Writers
In Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire wrote, “Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with... Read more »
Notre Dame Hires Pro-Choice Catholic as New Football Coach
Word came yesterday: The University of Notre Dame has hired Brian Kelly away from the University of Cincinnati to be its new... Read more »
Tip of my hat to Stephen Colbert
I couldn’t help but share this clip from last night’s Colbert Report.
In his ‘Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger’ segment, Colbert talks about
new efforts to de-gender language found in textbooks. (more after the jump)... Read more »
Lies and the Lying Feminists Who Tell Them: the latest from Christina Hoff Sommers
“Feminist misinformation is pervasive,” Christina Hoff Sommers writes in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education.“Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship” is the latest from the author of Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women and The War on Boys: How Misguided Feminisim is Harming... Read more »
I Love (an Idealized, Hypermasculine Version of) College: An Update
A few weeks back, Kelsey blogged about Asher Roth's heteronormative, hypermasculinized, fratboy-centric conception of college. Though Kelsey deemed Roth to be singing in a serious as opposed to satirical tone, I couldn't... Read more »
I Love (an Idealized, Hypermasculine Version of) College
I know that I posted a get-ready-for-tomorrow’s-Douchebag-Decree-by-reading-about-another-douchebag piece last week, but this week finds me with yet another d-bag on the brain (or rather, the YouTube channel). Enter Asher Roth and his... Read more »
Trying to keep up
Clearly I'm not one of those people who can keep my blog up-to-the-minute, but I want to mention two more things about my visit to Detroit, even though I'm actually two states beyond at this point.
Before I left town, I had lunch with some staff members of Labor Notes, an incredible and radical... Read more »
Iowa, Nice!
Although I’ll never understand how enough force could gather behind the idea of inviting Karl Rove – recently named “The Worst Person Ever” – to the University of Iowa’s college graduation, I’m glad to see not everyone was pleased about it.
Some were upset at the protesters,... Read more »
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