Last night, the UC Davis English Department put a call for Chancellor Linda Katehi’s resignation on their homepage, most likely to back one of its untenured professors who had openly criticized Katehi. The English department’s move was impressive, on several counts — a department made a decision, that quickly? Nothing short of a miracle. Will it help [...]
Archive for November, 2011
I Want to Establish The Ron Swanson Scholarship In Women’s Studies
November 18, 2011I’m so excited about last night’s episode of Parks and Recreation. In the first place, it was written by a woman (Chelsea Peretti, who’s also written for The Sarah Silverman Program) and directed by another woman (Nicole Holofcener, who’s done actual movies and stuff). And the feminist cognoscenti have already recognized Leslie Knope as an even [...]