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Friday, May 25, 2012


Amanda Winters


Construction project leaves Parrish without social space

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When the Parrish renovation project is completed, residents will have a new fourth floor lounge and kitchen joining the two wings. But, for the time being, residents are left without public area compu…

Students fall prey to relativism

In my Op-Ed poem of last week, I suggested that academically acquired relativism led several students to decline to protest the Women’s Studies Department’s sponsorship of Wendy Shalit’s lecture. As r…

Unwelcome education

Composed prior to the event regarding Women’s Studies’ sponsorship of Shalit’s lecture, based on her previous publications and interviews available on the internet, cf. “Sex Ed’s Dead End.”…