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THE PROFESSOR
WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
When Colby sociology professor Adam Weisberger asks his students to engage in "critical self-reflection," he thinks he's found a way of making Hegel, Marx, and Weber relevant to the real lives of students. But Weisberger's unusual teaching methods - his students' papers often read like intimate diaries - have cost him his job. After three female students complain of his invasive assignments and another accuses him of sexual harassment, Weisberger loses his tenure bid. In response, he sues Colby for sexual harassment.
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I, DAVID STOLL
Middlebury College anthropologist David Stoll contends that Mayan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú misrepresented her past. According to Stoll, the best-selling memoir I, Rigoberta Menchú recounts tales of personal hardship and injustice that Menchú couldn't have known firsthand. Stoll also questions Menchú's alliance with Guatemala's Marxist-Leninist guerrilla movement. Menchú defender and Guatemalan novelist Arturo Arias responds: "Stoll would not care one whit if all the Mayas died of hunger, or if they disappeared off the map."
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Business school professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld resigns from Emory amid charges of petty vandalism, loses his appointment at Georgia Tech
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A study in American Demographics shows that the more educated you are, the less sex you have
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The October LF
investigates the world of the big, buff, and brainy: academic bodybuilders
Stanley Fish and wife Jane Tompkins announce move from Duke to University of Illinois at Chicago
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Princeton University Press buys the cover ad in Publisher's Weekly to promote its new fall titles
MLA Style Manual introduces guide to citing on-line sources
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Shaw University names Evander Holyfield a trustee
Bob Jones University threatens to arrest a gay alumnus if
he ever again
sets foot on campus
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Stanford holds first-ever U.S. academic conference on mumble master Bob Dylan's
contribution to American culture
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Eugene Genovese starts the Historical Society to
challenge the "trendy" American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians
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Self-described head chimpanzee of the House Newt Gingrich endorses proposal
to create retirement
sanctuaries for
chimps who
were used in
medical research
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E.O. Wilson, Consilience:
The Unity of Knowledge
Daniel Kevles, The Baltimore Case
After more than two years, University of Oklahoma Law School still unable to fill its chair named for
Anita Hill
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Princeton hires
controversial
ethicist and animal rights proponent Peter Singer
Caenorhabditis elegans, a worm species, becomes the first multicellular organism to have its DNA sequenced
NYU welcomes
back Ken Starr as
an adjunct professor of law
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ALL ABOUT ELAINE
As president of the Modern Language Association, Princeton's Elaine Showalter ruffles feathers. She suggests that graduate students "learn to write well enough to get paid for it." She admits in Vogue, "I've been trying to make the life of the mind coexist with the day at the mall." And in Hystories, she diagnoses chronic fatigue, Gulf War syndrome, and alien abduction as modern forms of hysteria.
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