18 October 2004

There's been a change in the mission, boys...

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Professor Shulamit Reinharz, director of Brandeis’s Women’s Studies Center (and wife of university president Jehuda Reinharz) told the reporter that “Brandeis stands for excellence and social justice. [Gender equality] is a question of social justice.” Brandeis “stands for social justice”???? Maybe I’m a little old-fashioned, but aren’t universities supposed to stand for the pursuit of truth, “even unto its innermost parts” (Brandeis’s motto). What if the truth conflicts with Professor Reinharz’s notions of “social justice?” Will a faculty member who pursues such truth get hired to teach Women’s Studies? Will a student who pursues such truth get a good grade?

Oh, I think we know the answers to those questions.

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