Posted on 01/05/2007 7:56:09 AM PST by freespirited
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The law student is coming by tomorrow seeking my help in applying for a summer internship w/a law firm, but I first required that SHE write it and I would critque it. (After all, I'm not the one applying.)
oops, this WOman.
Blog hooligans??
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh my....
Ditto!
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From a little bit up in that same thread you just posted from, this one is absolutely HILARIOUS!
"Professor" Davidson commissioned (no doubt funded at least in part by tax and/or tuition dollars) lesbians to TAKE PICTURES OF THEIR UNMADE BEDS and PASS IT OFF AS ART!!
Does it get any more ridiculous than this?
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"Academic Eye III: Reinserting Myself Into a History"
Duke University Museum of Art, through Nov. 7
"Reinserting Myself Into a History" is an exhibition of large-format photographic prints by former UNC Chapel Hill instructor Tammy Rae Carland, who asserts her lesbianism in her choice of themes. Carland is now on her way to California, where she will be an associate professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts.
As the third show in a series called the "Academic Eye," the Duke museum invited Duke's vice provost and director of interdisciplinary studies, Cathy Davidson, to choose an artist whose work she finds challenging.
"I did not know Carland, personally," Davidson said, "but I thought her work was important." After visiting the artist's studio, Davidson chose photographs from two series, "Lesbian Beds" and "Keeping House."
Lesbian lifestyles have so often been relegated to underground porn that these beds, seen from closely cropped aerial views, empty of their occupants, presents us with a set of complicated layers of meaning.
First of all, Carland writes that they are "formally composed and edited to conceptually resemble abstract expressionist and color field paintings." She emphasizes those who have just vacated the bed with the traces of them and objects that they have left behind.
The beds, which belong to her and to lesbian friends, were photographed as they were found. From across the gallery, formal artistic elements such as curves, straight lines, color and shadow assert themselves as abstract forms within a large frame. Close inspection, however, reveals the abstractions are really mussed and rumpled sheets and comforters with clues to the missing occupants: books, nightclothes, pets and deliberate patterns that suggest the genders of the recent sleepers. In her gallery guide essay, Davidson makes much out of the fact that the bed linen is not fashionably coordinated, but looks more like the odds and ends of a starter household.
Each photograph has some element or touch that makes it hard to believe the photographer didn't change a thing. For example, in "Untitled #10," a turquoise sheet has been bunched in such a way that it looks like the ribbon loop that honors breast cancer victims. In "Untitled #8," a sock lies in a corner like a needless phallic symbol, and in "Untitled #13," a slit in a pillow suggests the vaginal opening.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1762333/posts?page=390#390
I've had public library search requests for several '50's authors that took weeks, some finally coming from college libraries and some not available anywhere.
An excerpt from 'The Chronicle of Higher Education'
From the issue dated February 13, 2004
"A Manifesto for the Humanities in a Technological Age" By CATHY N. DAVIDSON and DAVID THEO GOLDBERG
Diversity is important. The humanities have been the principal (and for the most part the principled) site of diversity and diversification in the academy, both demographically and intellectually. Engineering, the sciences, the social sciences, and, to a lesser extent, the business schools now may be playing catch-up, recruiting increasingly diverse student and faculty populations; but the humanities are still way ahead in facing up to the challenge of understanding diversity in complex and paradigm-changing ways (just consider the contributions of ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and other identity-based programs).
They practice a "new age" religion, call it a "discipline", and force the taxpayer to pay for it under the chimera of "education".
It's the Marxist illiberal re-education form of warfare upon America.
That's a good idea about the courses. Brigitte Gabrielle, a victim of Muslim extremists and author of the book Because they hate, suggested monitoring college classes in general.
She had other suggestions about how citizens can make a difference:
Contact your elected officials: Make an appointment with your legislator and go with a group of friends. (Groups wield more power). Bring documented information (like this post) to your officials and let them know you want to get involved in order to make a difference . Do not leave their office until they agree to look into the matter and get back to you with concrete suggestions on how they plan to initiate changes for the better.
In dealing with Islamic countries, insist on reciprocation or no deal. If they want to build a mosque or Islamic school in our country, we should be able to build a church and a Christian school in theirs.
Sign petitions to change laws. Pass laws that publicly disclose which countries sponsor terror and how much they have invested in American companies and which companies.
Support the Patriot Act and legislators who enact strict legislation that will protect us at this time of war.
Ensure wide presidential powers to protect us during a time of war.
Restrict visas granted to Islamic foreign nationals each year.
Provide for US energy security and reduce the importance of oil.
Support legislators who will create legislation that will lead to developing sources of energy other than oil.
Support legislators who will promote Western ideals and values and dismiss excessive political correctness.
Secure the borders.
Fight legislation that empowers all tax exempt religious organizations with increased abilities for political influence.
Support legislators who enact laws to discourage excessive foreign funding for religious groups within the US.
Pursue all means available to uncover the plots of terror cell members and supporters living among us.
Monitor Your Local College and University: Call the registrar's office and ask if they have a Middle Eastern studies program or a course in Islamic religion. Try to talk with some students taking the course understand the nature and content of the professors' lectures. Monitor courses to see if they have an anti-American or anti-Semitic focus. Make sure you document everything said in class. Present your findings to the school administration, the media, the FBI, the local police, and the ACLU.
Report Suspicious Activity or Behavior.
Join an Activist Organization against Terror.
Join an organization whose mission is to expose and combat the threat of Islamic terrorism. American Congress for Truth (ACT) is one such organization which works to bring change through an organized grassroots movement to oppose the terrorist threat to America.
There is an informative web site which deals with timely issues and legislation relating to our security. The organization inspires activists to get involved and take action. Sign up at www.americancongressfortruth.org.
Lobby for Patriotic Education in America's Schools: Lobby for young people to be taught more in school about our founding documents, civics, American history and its heroes and participants, and America's place in the world.
Hold school systems accountable for providing nonpartisan education. Monitor this by asking your children and grandchildren about what political positions their teachers take and whether they indoctrinate against our country. If so, organize the parents to protest in writing.
Stay informed and Speak Out: Attend seminars in your local community. Many organizations, especially Jewish temples and community centers host speakers on current affairs regularly.
Write letters to your local newspaper expressing your opinion and letting journalists know that people are monitoring what they write.
Speak up in your church, social group and among friends to inform others.
Promote Western Values in Your Home.
Plan family trips to Washington, D.C. and other historical sites to teach them to know and respect our culture and heritage. The White House Historical Society has games, toys, puzzles, and books which teach history in a fun way.
Divest your own portfolio of investments in companies that do business with terrorist-sponsoring states. Go to the DivestTerror.org web site to learn more.
Learn which Muslim organizations have ties to terror (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood, etc.) and work to allow them no support within the US or around the globe.
Defend and support all movements toward personal freedoms in the Middle East.
Reduce your own gas consumption.
Support our troops.
Contact your library to request that they purchase this or other books dealing with the threats we face.
There are thousands of these nitwits all across the nation and they are provoking social disasters throughout.
Actually Mangum and Roberts [aka Pittman] failed to fulfill their contracts and only danced a short time because Roberts was out of it. There may have been a dispute about pay, but as far as we know they were paid in advance.
"50% of African Americans drop out of high school. Of those left over 80% cannot read after all those years at school." This is false.
I have serious respect for you for being able to tolerate academia even from an adjunct position. I am good friends with a Doctor of Philosophy, and his critical thinking skills are so warped and underdeveloped, he tempts me to smack him, whenever we discuss his subject. You evidently have more resilience than I do.
You sound like a good friend and an excellent proofreader. It's a shame neither your friend nor her daughter appreciated your input. It's an even greater shame what passes for A work in colleges and universities today.
My requests and book gifts are helping to balance that a little, I hope.
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