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Scrapbook 5,000 Sociologists, Sittin' Around Talkin' Once upon a time, there was a "scholarly journal" called—would The Scrapbook make this up?—The Insurgent Sociologist. If you were an engage...
...Tristani for the acknowledgment...
...And when the scam was reported in the local papers...
...Weasel words, but welcome just the same...
...The president of one of the two PTAs involved distanced her group from the effort, claiming it represented the views of just a single member, not the whole organization...
...But that doesn't matter...
...Nope...
...Maybe that's the plan: "the new honesty," or something...
...28, in response to an unexpected outpouring of protest, the FCC's governing commissioners, by a four-to-one vote, decided to "vacate our additional guidance" in this area...
...The Federal Communications Commission has reversed itself and withdrawn a Dec...
...The news organizations that receive YOUR NAME HERE's very, very personal statement on the economy will no doubt be deeply impressed...
...news stories and documents he will have "cited...
...The Scrapbook can't remember who Ladner and King are...
...Had sociology's 1960s finally ended...
...If you were an engage assistant professor convinced that mainstream sociology wasn't wool-headedly "relevant" enough, this is what you read...
...For YOUR NAME HERE's forthcoming press release also contains a whole bunch of facts YOUR NAME HERE will have "noted" and "recalled...
...What matters, as Joe R. Feagin points out, is how "sociology begins a new and challenging century of social inquiry...
...There couldn't be an Insurgent Sociologist anymore simply because there were too few "reactionary" sociologists left to insurge against...
...Norton is Washington's nonvoting delegate to the U.S...
...Our school board members are supposed to be out there working for public education," Rosemary Lynch told the Washington Post...
...If the RNC gets its way, YOUR NAME HERE will soon prove himself a very clever and witty fellow, indeed...
...Quantitative ethnographers of the world, unite...
...The FCC Retreats on Religious Censorship Good news...
...Dissenting, pro-censorship commissioner Gloria Tristani was rather more candid in defeat: "This is a sad and shameful day for the FCC...
...Your PTA Dues at Work The public-schools lobby loves to prattle on about how students must learn to "respect differences" in our multicultural society...
...Invitations have just gone out to the 95th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, sociology's Elks Club...
...24 WEEKLY STANDARD, Justin Torres reported on an "additional guidance" buried in FCC Order 99-393...
...eloquent words he will have "said...
...With "special plenary sessions" on "Sexism and Feminism" and "Racism and Anti-Racism Struggles...
...But when it comes to really important things—like money—tolerance, it seems, is the first thing to fly right out the window...
...29 censorship edict directed against religious broadcasters...
...Because when a few members of the Fairfax County school board publicly objected to their letters— board member Mychele Brickner correctly observed that students should never be turned into political "carrier pigeons"—the president of the county's umbrella Council of PTAs reacted with bewildering hostility...
...and even a joke he will have dreamed up about Hillary Clinton and the Chicago Cubs...
...This August in Washington, announces association president Joe R. Feagin, more than 5,000 sociologists will gather to discuss the "vital issues that animate our society and sociology as a field...
...Two parent-teacher associations in Fairfax County, Virginia, recently sent letters home with students warning parents about a state legislative effort to establish tax credits for private school tuition...
...Then, in 1988, the whole intra-disciplinary revolution thing went belly up and The Insurgent Sociologist got a brand-new, more soothing name: Critical Sociology...
...Ninety-five religious broadcasters around the country were affected...
...On Jan...
...But it's not clear which is worse: the PTA turning students into political pawns, or one member abusing her access to students and parents to promote a personal agenda...
...It has become clear," the majority of commissioners wrote, "that our actions have created less certainty rather than more, contrary to our intent...
...In the Jan...
...The letters encouraged parents to attend an anti-tax-credit rally being held in Richmond...
...if she is, she should not be on the Fairfax School Board...
...Isn't tolerance beautiful...
...In fact, the convention's feature event will be a "Town Meeting on the status of Washington, DC within the U.S...
...THE SCRAPBOOK can't decide...
...T]his supposedly independent agency"—independent of the First Amendment?—"has capitulated to an organized campaign of distortion and demagoguery...
...the guidance would have gutted their programming schedules— and threatened their continued existence...
...What is clear, in either case, is that these PTA types were clueless about why they were on the defensive in the first place...
...It was a "sample press release," you see, designed to be filled out by all those sheep in the GOP flock who can't be expected to come up with such stuff on their own...
...I would hope that Mrs...
...Either that, or those news organizations, having already received last Tuesday's tip from the RNC that YOUR NAME HERE can't so much as tie his shoes without a script from Washington, will write off YOUR NAME HERE as an idiot...
...No, check that— it was a press release the RNC hoped THE SCRAPBOOK would soon receive from any number of interchangeable "Republican activists" around the country...
...Washington is a perfect place for such discussions, Feagin observes, since "racial and class inequality [is] etched in the physical face of the city" and "full citizenship and democratic representation are still denied to its residents...
...And it started like this: (YOUR NAME HERE) today joined Republican activists nationwide marking the 107th straight month of economic growth, the longest economic expansion in American history, which (YOUR NAME HERE) noted "began under a Republican president, George Bush, and continued under the low-tax, balanced budget, free-trade policies of the Republican Congress...
...House of Representatives...
...That's the spirit...
...political system," featuring such of "the nation's leaders" as Eleanor Holmes Norton, Joyce Ladner, and Constance King...
...Those issues would be "Oppression, Domination & Liberation: Challenges for the 21st Century...
...For example...
...That guidance made educational broadcast licenses contingent on the willingness of stations to purge from most of their programming any "religious exhortation, proselytizing, or statements of personally-held religious views or beliefs...
...Brick-ner's actions do not mean she is in favor of vouchers or tax credits...
...Press Release of the Week Over THE SCRAPBOOK's fax machine last Tuesday came the latest press release from the Republican National Committee...
...On behalf of our contributor Justin Torres, THE SCRAPBOOK thanks Ms...
...Nor does it matter that Washington will achieve statehood— ASA's apparent goal, here—when hell freezes over...
...And now, 12 years later, there appear to be even fewer of them...
...people for the American Way, whose local contact information was listed on these fliers, offered rides to the rally—a blatant violation of Virginia lobbying regulations, according to the state's attorney general...
Vol. 5 • February 2000 • No. 21
