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04-19-2005, 11:36 AM
Not Feminist Enough
April 19, 2005, 7:49 a.m.
You only count if you’re radical.
By Allison Kasic
My soon-to-be alma mater, Bucknell University (http://www.bucknell.edu/index.html), recently became a household name when our basketball team snagged the upset of the year in the NCAA tournament. But there's a lot more to Bucknell than beating Kansas — indeed, our left-wing "Women's Resource Center" has been putting a "full court press" on common sense for years now.
Purportedly devoted to women's equality, the WRC is really just an example of wasted tuition dollars. It's a shaky proposition in the first place to dedicate an entire administrative office to only one gender. But the WRC has shown it can't even do that. Given its appalling record of partisanship over my four years here, it might be more appropriately called the Radical Feminist Resource Center. This office shamelessly uses its paid staff, its many programs, and Bucknell students' money to undertake such noble enterprises as encouraging the sale of vagina-shaped lollipops. It divides the women on campus by embracing a few man-hating radicals while dismissing any woman who rejects its extremist ideology.
Case in point: Renowned feminist and best-selling author <A href="http://www.aei.org/scholars/filter.,scholarID.56/scholar.asp">Christina Hoff Sommers recently spoke at Bucknell on the topic of "Who Stole Feminism?" under the auspices of the Bucknell Conservatives Club (http://www.bucknellconservatives.org/). We conservatives thought a speech by Sommers, a respected commentator and former university professor, would be a perfect opportunity to reach out to the very liberal WRC.
Yet when a conservative student asked WRC director Molly Dragiewicz whether the center would cosponsor Sommers's talk, she pled poverty, claiming that the center did not have enough funds in its budget. The BUCC in turn offered to list the WRC as a sponsor anyway — after all, the important thing is contributing to intelligent debate, not contributing money, right?
The rest of this article found here: Allison Kasic on Radical Feminism on National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/kasic200504190749.asp)
April 19, 2005, 7:49 a.m.
You only count if you’re radical.
By Allison Kasic
My soon-to-be alma mater, Bucknell University (http://www.bucknell.edu/index.html), recently became a household name when our basketball team snagged the upset of the year in the NCAA tournament. But there's a lot more to Bucknell than beating Kansas — indeed, our left-wing "Women's Resource Center" has been putting a "full court press" on common sense for years now.
Purportedly devoted to women's equality, the WRC is really just an example of wasted tuition dollars. It's a shaky proposition in the first place to dedicate an entire administrative office to only one gender. But the WRC has shown it can't even do that. Given its appalling record of partisanship over my four years here, it might be more appropriately called the Radical Feminist Resource Center. This office shamelessly uses its paid staff, its many programs, and Bucknell students' money to undertake such noble enterprises as encouraging the sale of vagina-shaped lollipops. It divides the women on campus by embracing a few man-hating radicals while dismissing any woman who rejects its extremist ideology.
Case in point: Renowned feminist and best-selling author <A href="http://www.aei.org/scholars/filter.,scholarID.56/scholar.asp">Christina Hoff Sommers recently spoke at Bucknell on the topic of "Who Stole Feminism?" under the auspices of the Bucknell Conservatives Club (http://www.bucknellconservatives.org/). We conservatives thought a speech by Sommers, a respected commentator and former university professor, would be a perfect opportunity to reach out to the very liberal WRC.
Yet when a conservative student asked WRC director Molly Dragiewicz whether the center would cosponsor Sommers's talk, she pled poverty, claiming that the center did not have enough funds in its budget. The BUCC in turn offered to list the WRC as a sponsor anyway — after all, the important thing is contributing to intelligent debate, not contributing money, right?
The rest of this article found here: Allison Kasic on Radical Feminism on National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/kasic200504190749.asp)