Posted on 05/15/2006 3:28:06 AM PDT by Born Conservative
Billed as a "celebration of whore culture" the show was euphemistically titled the "Sex Workers Art Show." It featured a group of hookers, phone sex operators, smut writers, porn stars, and one woman who appeared via her 24-hour porn website.
One of the acts included a woman stripping on a trapeze. Another featured a woman coming out wearing nothing but duct tape on her nipples and panties while running through the audience to “Mission Impossible” music and looking for clothes. While another woman was doing a strip tease, a large man was rapping about "ho ass ni**ers" - like Kirby Puckett and Harriet Tubman – and, just for added shock value, lubing himself.
What made the event even worse in the eyes of some campus conservatives was last year’s response to the Conservatives Club’s hosting of Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers. Her trip to campus to talk about "equity feminism" was poorly received by some of Bucknell’s feminist leaders.
When the Women’s and Gender Studies Department (who funded the sex workers) was asked if they would like to cosponsor the Sommers lecture, first they said they lacked funding. The full email response to the president of the conservative club (Dominic Rupprecht) is copied below:
From: Katherine Faull (faull@bucknell.edu)
Subject: Re: BUCC Speakers 2004-2005
Dear Dominic,
Thanks for the reminder of the Hoff Sommers event. WGS coordinating committee has discussed the issue and decided that we are not in a position to co-sponsor her talk.
Sorry we can't help with this speaker.
Katherine Faull
When Rupprecht later wrote and asked if they would like to cosponsor without contributing money they again rejected the club because "several members of the board had serious concerns about the intellectual integrity of (Sommer’s) work." The full email response is copied below:
From: Katherine Faull (faull@bucknell.edu)
Subject: Re: BUCC Speakers 2004-2005Dear Dominic,
The reasons behind our not wishing to co-sponsor the Hoff Sommers event are not only financial. Several of the members of the Board had serious concerns about the intellectual integrity of her work and did not think that the Program should endorse her talk.
Maybe we can work together in the future to find speakers we would both agree on.
Thanks,
Katherine Faull
The translation of the above email is simple: The WGS will co-sponsor an event with the Conservative Club as soon as Bucknell conservatives accept the fact that feminists are a) tolerant of leftist speech no matter how devoid of intellectual integrity, and b) intolerant of conservative speech no matter how strong the evidence or how compelling the logic.
In addition to this problem of generalized intolerance, the feminists in Bucknell’s Women and Gender Studies Department have a specific fear of Sommers. Anyone who has ever read the classic “Who Stole Feminism?” knows Sommers’ record for exposing extremism in the feminist movement.
For example, when Sommers attended a National Women’s Studies Association conference, she documented some disturbing activities including a booth offering videos on do-it-yourself menstrual extractions and home abortions for those who wanted to avoid “patriarchal medicine.” Certainly, Bucknell feminists do not want her on campus because she will find out about (and then write about) extremism at Bucknell including the celebration of strippers, porn stars, and prostitutes.
But Dominic Rupprecht is not as cynical as Mike Adams. He has written directly to the feminists to give them an opportunity to offer an innocent explanation for their apparent hypocrisy. Unfortunately, when specifically asked by Rupprecht, the feminists have never responded to the question of what qualifications hookers have that a PhD New York Times bestseller – by the name of Christina Hoff Sommers - does not.
I think that everyone reading this column should write to Professor Faull demanding an answer. Just in case you missed it, her email address is faull@bucknell.edu.
Bucknell and other schools who have long been cowed (no pun intended) by radical feminazis and other hard core marxists leftists has no credible academic standing. The institutions have been taken over by those who couldnt care less about academics and use them as a platform for deviency, immorality and filth, all in the name of progressivism.
Feminazis: WHEN ARE MEN GOING TO RESPECT WOMEN, "GLBTs" AND WHORES?
"Equal pay for equal sex work."
How long until the Feminazis start rationalizing human sacrifice and cannibalism as societal norms?
We won't hold our breath.
Quality students are fleeing liberal arts colleges such as Bucknell just as qucikly as quality people are fleeing liberal denominationats such as ECUSA.
When referring to "feminists" you will in the future use the words " overweight, trisomic, ugly-stick, man-hating lesbians. Thank you.
As every Lewis Grizzard fan will attest, it's not 'neked' it's 'nekkid'.
As for definitions:
naked = nude, without clothing.
nekkid = naked and up to something.
All intellectual frauds are the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, the Center for the Study of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, and the Office of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Awareness. This is what happens when leftists take over a university. Such organizations have no social redeeming value, but are able to continue their corruption of moral values, specious reasoning without corrective feedback or the dismantling they deserve. How revolting!
"Fiddy dollar cover and two drink minimum"
My daughter graduated Bucknell and we do contribute.
However, I would have no qualms about contributing to a college that maintains decency standards instead.
Bucknell will not get another dime.
And all this for only $42K a year in tuition!
It's a crying shame, Bucknell's decline into radical liberalism. Lewisburg is my hometown and one of the most beautiful places in rural USA, imo.
What a shame.
Check out The Citadel. A fellow could leave a $20 bill on the sidewalk at 8 in the morning and return to find it unmoved at 8 in the evening.
Bucknell, and other liberal arts colleges like it, are falling victim to the changing collegiate landscape. Large state universities such as Penn State, Florida, Texas, etc which offer vast arrays of programs and opportunities are literally putting the smaller liberal arts only schools out of business. To stay relevant and in the news, many of them are becoming more and more shrill and radical.
Perhaps their ascension to basketball heaven has turned them away from academic excellence to a quest for basketball March Madness acclaim.
There was a recent article that Bucknell was the only school in March Madness that had a 100% graduation rate among the basketball players.
I can sure you, those students get a lot of 'help' from their coaches.
AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH
As I said above, they have Ivy Envy. They want to be thought of as a center of high learning on the level of Harvard and Yale. Many at the school espouse the idea that to be such, you have to be radical, on the cutting edge. That is why you get crapola like this. I don't think, however, the alumni of Bucknell (which is a traditionally conservative school in the sense that they didn't want to be known for doing crap like this) will put up with this too much longer.
I doubt it. Up until four or so years ago, Bucknell did not offer athletic based scholarships. When they did go to that system, the instituted strict controls. I have known several players who wanted to attend Bucknell, but were denied admission due to failing to meet the admissions standards. Perhaps they have backed away from that policy, but hopefully not.
My son was recruited by Bucknell for football. They guaranteed admission (he's a good but not great student) and they did not offer a scholarship. They did offer financial aid of about 25% of the costs. I thought the Patriot League schools did not offer athletic scholarships. They call it something else.
They didn't offer athletic scholarships but they did offer need scholarships and I can assure you the newly admitted basketball players did NOT meet academic standards.....they did meet need standards however.
human sacrifice: Abortion
cannibalism: Stem cell research?
So the Duke lacrosse team was having a self study of the "celebration of whore culture".
And they wonder where did the lacrosse team get the idea that hiring a hooker was a good thing.
True, Bucknell has five ABET accredited engineering programs, all of which are undergraduate programs. Penn State has 18 programs. Furthermore, PSU requires its students to take the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam whereas Bucknell does not.
My overall point is that most high school seniors only have a general idea of what they want to major in. The typical college student changes his major several times. Therefore, a university with a wide range of programs (and lower tuition, I might add) naturally has more appeal.
In another era, a student would go away to college to earn a "liberal education", which is a degree program which features a variety of courses ranging from history and philosophy to mathematics and foreign languages. After earning his degree, the student would then go on to law school, med school, business school, seminary, etc. Today, students have become much more pragmatic about college. For them it's an opportunity to pick up a skill that will land them a respectable job upon graduation. Why travel halfway across the country and spend a king's fortune for a practical degree that can just as readily be earned at the local state univeristy for a fraction of the cost?
I just called The Citadel and will be making my donation to them instead of Bucknell.
Called several Bucknell administrative numbers, got voice mail and one hang up before I said a word.
My cousin's son just graduated from The Citadel.
The league opened up to scholarships in all sports except football.
I have to slightly disagree with you on this. Many students still seek what they deem to be prestige schools as a means for advancing their careers. I think given the choice between Penn State and Bucknell, Bucknell would be the most likely choice. Unless of course that student wants a bigger school with class sizes roughly equal to attendance at Happy Valley on a fall Saturday. Or, unless that student wants to root for a real football team.
Bucknell: $42K a year. Wow! It seemed a very good school form my brief visit there, small classes, state-of-the-art tools for teaching, and a small self-contained campus in small town America.
I would certainly agree that some students, cost and admissions not withstanding, would prefer a smaller college to a "megaversity". Prestige may also be a factor, but I don't see it as being as critical as it once was. Students are more pragmatic, and besides, prestige only works if the college in question is well known (everyone knows of MIT, but almost nobody knows of Swarthmore).
In the days when going to college meant getting a general liberal arts education, prestige had to be a consideration in choosing schools because there was little else objective to distinguish them (classics students at Harvard read the same Aeneid as classics students at Sewanee).
Really, what distinguishes Bucknell from Cornell? The answer: football. Cornell is Ivy League and Bucknell is not for the simple fact that in the 1930's, Cornell had a significant football program and Bucknell did not. The Ivy League was the brainchild of college football sportswriters- the Depression era equivalent of Lee Corso and ESPN Gameday.
This is some much more important than a President Clinton the rapist. /sarasm
Sounds great in theory, but isn't it funny how to get into certain positions of power etc. one must have those Ivy League credentials.
Something to think about.
Yes, absolutely so. Like Al Gore. Or Bill Clinton. Or Bill Gates. Yes sir, a spot on truth-a-tarian fact that which that fact which that fact that which stated you.
The Ivy League automatic ticket to a cushy job is becoming a thing of the past. A recent survey of Fortune 500 CEO's found that more of them hailed from the University of Wisconsin than from any other school. This is a trend that will only gain momentum as the best and the brightest of today's high school seniors are becoming less and less interested in New Haven or Cambridge. Last year Alabama landed more national merit scholars than Harvard!
Quote: "Yes, absolutely so. Like Al Gore. Or Bill Clinton. Or Bill Gates. Yes sir, a spot on truth-a-tarian fact that which that fact which that fact that which stated you."
This has me a scratchin my head. What are you responding to and then I can respond.
And that condition of perplexity was had by myself upon reading your own post -- for there was not sarcasm marker upon it, so I do not know where you come from. Was your staement serious?
"Glory to the Patriarchy!"
--Graff-Chmeee
Yay for more female physics majors!!!
*and there was much rejoicing*
Got her minor in math statistics.
I can assure you, she does NOT take after her mother, me! NOT A BIT
Which post?
Recently, feminists at Bucknell University sponsored an event that looked more like a Duke Lacrosse party than a celebration of feminist diversity. On March 8, Bucknell's so-called Feminist Majority - along with groups like the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, the Center for the Study of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, and the Office of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Awareness - paid $1,920 for a strip show at Bucknell.
The common denominator threading it way through all these sentient human academics and their noble and benevolent groups & departments of greater learning?
ANSWER: --the lowest common denominator -one supposedly shared with disordered penguins...
It is what it is -calling it something else may be delusion medicine for the delusional elite within; however, such shell games certainly fool no one on the outside looking in and laughing...
LOL
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