Racial inequality not a laughing matter

However, the saying goes: a picture is worth a thousand words. Even after the company recalled their T-shirts, supposedly because the Asian American community objected, an employee at Abercrombie and Fitch walked out of the door wearing one of the recalled T-shirts during the rally in Boston protesting the shirts on Saturday. Abercrombie claims that they have already apologized by having their public relations man utter a few words. Yet, their employee was wearing the racist shirt. While the emp

High percentage of College faculty are tenured

This high percentage is comparable to other schools in the 2000-2001 academic year, such as Swarthmore, with 81 percent, and Wesleyan, with 78 percent. Williams had 68 percent tenured faculty in 1998-1999. “A tenured faculty is a strong faculty,” Raskin said. The College has a trustee-imposed cap of 165. As of last year, the College employed 125 tenured faculty members. President Gerety said that most tenure-track professors at the College get tenure. “It’s not automatic,” Gerety said, “but it

Indicator Article Leads To English 6 Controversy

The controversy began when teachers at Holyoke obtained a copy of The Indicator, a College journal of social and political thought, during Parents’ Weekend. The article depicted a conversation between several students, a teacher and the article’s author Jordan Lang ’03, who was helping to teach the class at the time. The article portrays the teacher somewhat unflatteringly, in addition to reporting students’ statements without changing their names. Because of the reaction to the article, Profes