Hard On the Y

It's the way that I move, the things that I do, uh, huh huh-her

New York Times reports that Yale is under scrutiny from several directions about treatment of women, and especially the use of degrading words, on campus.

Reminds me that when I was at Dartmouth I wrote a Freudian close-reading for Blanche Gelfant’s class about the use of the word “crack” in Henry Roth’s “Call It Sleep”.

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Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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4 Responses to Hard On the Y

  1. markweiss86's avatar markweiss86 says:

    Apparently Blanche liked my paper so much she shared it with Hana Wirth-Nesher:

  2. markweiss86's avatar markweiss86 says:

    “‘No’ means ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’ means ‘anal'” according to Yale Daily News:
    http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/apr/01/yale-under-investigation/

  3. markweiss86's avatar markweiss86 says:

    Horrible segue (to my worst post, by far) but but here is NYT on Yale Glee Club 150th anniversary in New York, which also reminds me of Palo Altan Holcombe Waller who I guess was in something called the Duke’s Yale Group or something:

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