“Grade Inflation”: Frisking Harvey Mansfield
In 2011, during the final weeks of a semester, a full professor at a research university in the United States was summoned to her department chair’s office. The chair said to her, “I notice that you gave three A+ in your general studies course this semester. That’s too many. I need you to lower two...
Your Town Now: Stopping the Silence
Women’s Resource and Action Center: uiowa.edu/~wrac Men’s Anti-Violence Council: uiowa.edu/~wrac/anti-violence.shtml Rape Victim Advocacy Program: rvap.org Rape Crisis Line at the RVAP: (319) 335-6000 Iowa Sexual Abuse Hotline: (800) 284-7821 For the purposes of this writing, let’s stipulate up front that we don’t really know exactly what happened in the Penn State football locker room in...
Listening to Johnny Cash with Eddie
I could tell he had been a big man, but the cancer had eaten away at him, thinning him to an elongated skeleton in the bed. His eyes were red-rimmed and, as he slept, his right one didn’t close all the way, so I could see the eyeball between the lids. I pulled the chair...
Listening to Johnny Cash with Eddie
I could tell he had been a big man, but the cancer had eaten away at him, thinning him to an elongated skeleton in the bed. His eyes were red-rimmed and, as he slept, his right one didn’t close all the way, so I could see the eyeball between the lids. I pulled the chair...
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