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This sort of madness is epidemic in higher education. If i were to compile all the institutional silliness passed off in recent years, it would fill a book. It reflects the notion that what happens in universities is going to change society. And that college students are indistinguishable from children . . . and faculty or other employees are essentially animals to be herded. ML On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > (Kipnis is a FB friend.) > > In 2015, students at Northwestern University responded to an article in > the Chronicle of Higher Education with a protest march. Some carried > mattresses. The author of the article, Laura Kipnis, a tenured faculty > member at Northwestern, had gleefully denounced the state of campus sexual > politics. Kipnis’s immediate target was a university policy, introduced the > year before, that prohibited all romantic or sexual relationships between > students and university staff or faculty members. In the piece, titled > “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe,” she critiqued a “new paradigm” of > trigger warnings and trauma, in which students had become “committed to > their own vulnerability, conditioned to imagine they have no agency, and > protected from unequal power arrangements in romantic life.” Kipnis, who > has written books including “Against Love” and “Men: Notes from an Ongoing > Investigation,” often voices controversial or contrarian views; here, as > always, she took pleasure in stirring up a hornets’ nest. In a telling > anecdote, she related that, a decade earlier, she had voluntarily attended > a harassment workshop on campus (“Hoping my good citizenship might be > noticed,” she wrote). The first guideline issued by the workshop leader was > “Do not make unwanted sexual advances.” Kipnis couldn’t help herself. From > the back of the room she called, “But how do you know they’re unwanted > until you try?” > > full: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/laura- > kipniss-battle-against-vulnerability > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/markalause%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
