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What Fresh Hell Is This?

Marooned in women's studies, grad student Eric Adler learns the women's studies nod.

AT FIRST, the class was very entertaining indeed. It met in the women's studies seminar room, a cozy chamber bedecked with drab posters championing a suitably multicultural array of women whose careers could bolster student self-esteem. One poster, for instance, lauded Anita Hill's "courageous testimony before an entirely white, male Senate judiciary"--not, I submit, the kind of pedagogical tool one will find on the walls of other departments at Duke. The instructor also appeared to have a distinct interest in the emotional well-being of her students. At our first meeting she told us that each class would commence with an opportunity for class members to present announcements concerning women-friendly topics: upcoming lectures, stray comments on recent events, etc. As she smiled widely at the beginning of our first class--a smile so emotive...

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