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Schools largely silent on efforts to change students’ pronoun habits

Tom Joyce - Emerson College — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 05:04:51 +0000

Students instructed in pronoun options like ‘co’ and ‘kit’ Several schools are remaining silent on the effectiveness of their LGBTQ-inspired attempts to shift pronoun customs on campus, though one official said that their campus’s efforts have largely been unsuccessful. Cornell University, Bryn Mawr College and the University of California, Davis are among the growing number of colleges in the…

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University offers class that explores ‘non-human perspectives’ of LGBT

Tom Joyce - Emerson College — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 05:05:11 +0000

Course examines ‘the trouble with normal’ A public university is giving its students an opportunity to learn about “non-human perspectives” of LGBT identities and politics, though the professor teaching the class did not explain how studying such a perspective was even possible. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Studies Department at Montclair State University offers a 200-level…

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Columbia offers students a course in writing ‘effective sex scenes’

Tom Joyce - Emerson College — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 05:04:34 +0000

‘Close, in class readings of sex scenes’ This semester, Columbia University is giving its students an opportunity to spruce up on their sex scene writing skills in the classroom. According to the course description, the class will study how to use details, senses and characters effectively in erotica. In order to achieve this, the course description says they will, “do close…

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Asian advocacy group blasts UC Berkeley’s plan for Hispanic ‘racial quotas’

Tom Joyce - Emerson College — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:05:22 +0000

Activist says effort is ‘race-based injustice and ethnic profiling’; spokesman calls claims ‘baseless’ The Asian American Coalition for Education recently slammed the University of California, Berkeley, and the school’s chancellor, Carol Christ, for the school’s plan to become an “Hispanic Serving Institution.” The group said that the university’s plan is meant to be a system of “racial quotas”…

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University joins Tinder to teach students about healthy sex

Tom Joyce - Emerson College — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 06:05:44 +0000

School’s hookup app profile will feature ‘messages for healthy relationships’ Utah State University joined the dating and hookup app Tinder earlier this month in hopes of promoting healthy relationships and minimizing sexual assault on campus, a goal it hopes to accomplish in part by featuring “message for healthy relationships” on the school’s account. Tinder is a social dating app in which…

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Professor demands Title IX investigation after Northeastern prof calls for hatred of men

Tom Joyce - Emerson College — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 04:06:54 +0000

Instructor is ‘confirmed sexist and bigot,’ according to Title IX request A University of Michigan-Flint professor is calling for a Title IX investigation at Northeastern University in response to a column by one of the school’s professors that openly advocated hatred against men. Mark Perry, a professor of economics and finance at University of Michigan-Flint, submitted a request earlier this…

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‘Hate has no place here’: University responds to prof’s call to hate men

Tom Joyce - Emerson College — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:05:07 +0000

Title IX office silent after academic’s sexist op-ed Northeastern University recently defended a professor while simultaneously distancing itself from her advocacy of hatred after the professor announced her misandry in a national newspaper. Suzanna Walters, who serves as both a sociology professor and director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the school…

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Yale to host rapper who sings about violent sex, deep throating, 8-year-old’s vagina

Tom Joyce - Emerson College — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 04:06:50 +0000

Songs derided as ‘musical porn’; university refuses to comment Yale University this year will host a rapper during its Spring Fling celebration who regularly sings about explicit and violent sex, a decision that has drawn both criticism and praise from students, with the rapper herself defending her controversial style. Elizabeth Eden Harris, who goes by “CupcakKe”, will be one of the four…

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Outdoor club at college in Maine accused of being ‘massively white’ and ‘sickeningly privileged’

Tom Joyce - Emerson College — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 04:04:17 +0000

Student condemns campus ‘rooted in a Northeastern white understanding of self’ An outdoor expedition that’s part of Bates College’s freshman orientation, and the student group that runs it, recently came under fire from one student critic who accused them of perpetuating “white privilege” and “prehistoric policies regarding gender.” Justin Geddes, the layout editor of the The Bates Student…

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Wake Forest U. bias response team refuses to act after white conservative student harassed by peers of color

Tom Joyce - Emerson College — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:23:08 +0000

Dean allegedly justifies inaction by saying ‘Trump won’ Wake Forest University’s Bias Response Team refused a white student’s request for a judicial case after a series of racially charged incidents directed at him. Senior Ryan Wolfe asked the group, who is in charge of eliminating identity-based harassment on campus, for the trial. Instead, the group said it would not press charges against…

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