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CURRENT WISDOM Harper's In a symposium on the scortatory arts 'as practiced by our profs and students, Prof. William Kerrigan of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), arguably the handsomest...

...On June 24, Judge Thomas A. Olson ruled that Montana's Hunter Protection Law was in violation of an individual's First Amendment right to free speech...
...But there is a kind of student I've come across in my career who was working through something that only a professor could help her with...
...As the practitioner, I regard this as a holy encounter...
...I'm talking about a female student who, for one reason or another, has unnaturally prolonged her virginity...
...August 1993] The American Spectator November 1993 97...
...As was typical of Allin's gigs, the actual set lasted about 10 minutes...
...Ben says: "Yep, Jim is a part of my family too...
...At this point, one of the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department employees arrested the activist under a Montana law prohibiting harassment of hunters during legal hunting season...
...Don't shoot...
...And if she loses that virginity with a man who is not a teacher, she's going to marry that man, boom...
...Allin, whose antics included hurling his feces at audiences, punching out crowd members, and holding women at knife-point (to bring back "the danger in rock 'n' roll, which is dead," he said), had always claimed his death was destined to come on stage, preferably on a Halloween and after he'd "taken a bunch of you (expletive) out with me...
...William Kerrigan of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), arguably the handsomest man on campus, reveals that he also has the heart of the Good Samaritan: KERRIGAN: I have been the subject of advances from male and female students for twenty-five years...
...In its animated 45-second feature entitled Alison's Magic Kettle, a young girl visits a number of families of friends...
...Again, the activist ran in front of his loaded rifle shouting, "Don't shoot...
...The defendant and 10 other members of Fund for Animals, allegedly brought in expressly for the purpose of disrupting the hunt, confronted the hunters...
...Scott Enk [September 6, 1993]St...
...Since then, Greenfield estimates she has fielded about 10 complaints, "about one per province...
...Good-bye...
...I realize that the term may not be that offensive to some people...
...The case involved a March 13, 1990, incident during a bison hunt at Horse Butte, Mont...
...Full or partial massage, by appointment only...
...However, my reading and my discussions with people make me know that some do find the use of "dissemination" offensive...
...The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks said the appeal probably won't be settled until well after this year's big game season...
...It is my goal in massage to be present to you through proven massage technique...
...In the clip that shows two men shaving in a bathroom, Alison says: "Ben lives with his dad and his dad's friend Jim...
...The harassment policy will be reissued to all staff...
...Shoot...
...It shows the girl visiting her friend Cassia, who "lives with her mom and her mom's friend Maria" as they fix a bike outside...
...July 17, 1993] State of Wisconsin Department of Corrections In a memorandum about what Big Brother calls harassment, Mr...
...July 6, 1993] Times-Colonist (Victoria, B.C...
...I am not defending Don Juanism, you know, sex for grades and so forth...
...Same goes for the often-photographed nudist crowd at Berkeley...
...Shoot!' and the commotion caused the hunter to miss his shot, the bystander cannot be prosecuted...
...I make this request because I feel that CCCC should take a strong leadership role on such matters...
...See "Bare Facts," 6/16/93] After having sampled several in the Bay Area I'm left with the impression that even golf and country clubs are more multicultural...
...The festival's exclusion of males (as well as of transsexual women) is not only unfair to the many good and decent men who support equality for women, but to women who would love to introduce their husbands, boyfriends, brothers, sons or other men in their lives to feminist music and culture...
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...At his request, he will be laid to rest in his favorite outfit: a dog collar, a leather jockstrap and boots...
...Patrick J. Fiedler, secretary, brings the time-honored policies of the North Vietnamese re-education camp to his humorless department: Several steps will be taken in the near future to promote a harassment-free work environment...
...An auspicious report for all goose-stepping members of the New Thought Patrol: The Canadian version of Sesame Street, the children's television show, has begun broadcasting animated vignettes 'profiling same-sex roommates taking care of kids as well as single-parent families...
...I've had them come at me right and left...
...Complaints or questions can be addressed to: Department of Corrections Affirmative Action Office, 149 East Wilson Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53702 or you may call: Jo Winston, Equal Opportunity Officer, (608) 267-9082/TDD (608) 267-3676 or Therese Sundet, Equal Opportunity Officer Specialist, (608) 266-0561...
...For example, if a bystander exclaims, 'There he is...
...As such a feminist and as one committed to respect for all forms of diversity, I consider such exclusion not only a personal affront but hypocritical, bigoted and, yes, sexist...
...In addition, all staff will be expected to attend harassment training in the next three years...
...One] exercise has about 15 teachers standing on a blanket that was supposed to be a boat surrounded by hungry sharks...
...Sesame Street executive producer Shirley Greenfield said the segment that caused the biggest uproar has Alison visiting her friend Ben...
...The Medium is Massage...
...Don Cox, the school's new principal, hopes the exercises will help his teachers to work together and solve problems that come up during the school year...
...made his escape to an Avenue B apartment...
...Duane H. Roen University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona [September 1993] Variety Another cautionary tale from the art world: The self-proclaimed "most violent man in rock 'n' roll," Kevin Michael (G.G...
...Sesame Street began broadcasting the vignette last fall...
...26 Tribune, "a small model society that operates on . . . respect for diversity" is an outrage given how this major (supposedly) feminist event excludes those feminists who happen to be male...
...I've had people take their clothes off in my office...
...The Department's Affirmative Action staff is available to answer questions and discuss problems related to harassment and discrimination as well as to investigate complaints...
...Alison tells the audience she lives with her single mom and dog, then says: "But not everyone lives with their mom, of course...
...I respectfully ask that the CCCC Executive Committee replace the phallologocentric term "dissemination," which appears in "Basic Rules for the Handling of Resolutions at the Annual Business Meeting," found on page 147 of the program for the 1993 CCCC meeting...
...He was found dead the next morning at 9 a.m., but "had clearly been dead for about five hours," according to his brother...
...copped one too many bags of heroin in an attempt to cool out...
...Let me show you some of my friend's parents...
...Wouldn't all women benefit if more men were exposed to feminism...
...You will be required to sign a sheet, indicating you have read the document...
...Kimball Wolf Certified Massage Practitioner [August 29, 1993] Council Chronicle In the newsletter of the National Council of Teachers of English, another dismal communiqué from a Gestapo agent: The following letter was received by Anne Ruggles Gere, Chair of the CCCC Executive Committee: My request, I believe, is a small but important one...
...Paul's Catholic Center (Weekly Bulletin) Lubricious fingers go to work on behalf of Our Lord at the Indiana University Newman Center's health spa...
...Training will be offered regularly at both training centers and at individual work sites as well...
...He was totally blue, and rigor mortis had set in to the point where I couldn't get the rings off his fingers...
...When one of the hunters took aim at a bison, an animal rights activist stepped in front of his rifle and shouted, "Don't shoot...
...The careful connection of Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit...
...Cost: a full session can be as little as $40...
...July 8, 1993] Safari Times Judge Thomas A. Olson sanctifies the good kind of harassment: The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department is appealing a State District Court judge's ruling that a law protecting hunters from harassment by animal rights activists is unconstitutional...
...The hunter who was being harassed eventually killed a buffalo elsewhere...
...According to Judge Olson's ruling on the Montana anti-harassment law, it "prohibits communication with hunters, which is intended to dissuade them from hunting, while allowing communication with hunters which encourages hunting, even if such communication prevents a hunter from taking the prey...
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...However, if that same bystander said, `There he is...
...Unfortunately, your article tends to reinforce this perception, with only one (apparently) non-white-personphoto out of at least 10 (not to mention the "mud people...
...Don't shoot!,' the speaker could be prosecuted...
...June 23, 1993]Ocala Star-Banner (Ocala, Florida) Another idiot adventure in the American education system: Instead of sitting in long staff meetings and organizing their classrooms all day Tuesday, Fort McCoy School's 70 teachers spent their first day of school . . . in exercises that are supposed to build communication and problem-solving abilities...
...The hunter moved away, and took aim at another animal...
...The teachers adapted and ended up clenching each other and standing on each other's feet so they could all fit on the blanket...
...The hunter had drawn a tag for a special hunt to take one of the bison that had wandered out of Yellowstone National Park...
...Allin, died June 28 in New York City at age 36, apparently of a heroin overdose...
...September 1993] Bay Guardian In a venerable journal of Moral Improvement, a surprise admonition from M. Kamionko: Is there an unwritten whites-only rule at nude beaches...
...Complaints to the Department AA Office must allege discrimination on the basis of at least one of the following: race, sex, creed, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, arrest or conviction records, political affiliation, or military reserve membership...
...Maybe there's a strong father, maybe there's a religious background...
...Because language is our 96 The American Spectator November 1993 field of study, we should be extremely sensitive to the perceptions of people who feel that certain kinds of language exclude them...
...Alison replies: "Oh neat...
...had been "partying all day, doing coke" prior to a show at Manhattan's Gas Station, an art gallery on the Lower East Side...
...We know from the gospels that Jesus literally touched people and, with that, there was an experience of restoration and a greater sense of wellness or wholeness...
...August 23, 1993] Chicago Tribune Surely a practical jokester on the make: To call the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, as Barbara Brotman did in the Aug...
...Allin will be buried in New Hampshire...
...The Gas Station's particularly violent crowd spilled onto the street and commenced a bottle-hurling battle with police while G.G...
...But, in Merle's words, "You could sense it was kind of a grand finale...
...The teachers all had to get on the boat, and every time they succeeded, the blanket would be folded over again until it was about half its original size...
...There, according to his brother, G.G...
...And there is a particular kind of student I have responded to...
...Sexism, whether practiced by men or women, is sexism...
...I will suggest "distribution" as a substitute term, but you may have other preferences...
...The singer/performance artist's brother and bassist, Merle Allin, said G.G...
...Will someone explain...
...And I don't think the marriage is going to be very good...

Vol. 26 • November 1993 • No. 11


 
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