![]() Her hands cover her eyes and face in a gesture of sadness and shame, like the weeping angel statue on campus near Stanford’s Mausoleum. It begins with a photo: A young girl supine on a soft bed in her bedroom, clad in a pink shirt that matches the pink pillows scattered around her, cute as any pedigreed snowflake-white bunny-rabbit. I encourage you to look it up and read it. 20 publication by a local Hoover Institution fellow, Bruce Thornton, entitled “ Snowflake Feminism ,” in the online publication American Greatness. I wondered if he, too, was paying his own tuition.įor my third and final attempt to begin elsewhere, I sample the Jan. The student presenter of the sanctuary campus proposal did not have a chance to respond. Across campus, the still column of Hoover Tower jutted into the air, dominating the azure of the Palo Alto sky I have so come to love. The Faculty Senate continued through its docket of subjects with marionette-like automation. Perhaps it would be vapid to note that I, not my parents (whom I love dearly, sometimes despite their best efforts to love me) pay for my university education, in a similar manner to many of my fellow students, most racking up years of debt they will yet have to figure out how to pay off. He responded, in his usual circumspect manner, that he was entrusted with caring for the interests of this university, and he could not spend this money - tuition money - tuition money paid by the students’ parents moreover, that is, quote, “your father’s money” - on making Stanford a sanctuary campus. After a noble eulogy for a beloved scholar of mine, Professor Emeritus Robert Cohen, most subtle of Anglophone Mallarméans - I was sad to hear of his passing - a proposal for a sanctuary campus was made by some students.Įtchemendy responded, and it is this response I wish to note and discuss. Shortly after the country’s last presidential election, in consideration of the President-elect’s xenophobia - xenos is the Greek word for alien, by the way - there was talk of making Stanford a “sanctuary campus,” some of it at the Faculty Senate, while I attended. When I picked up this same paper today - that is, the day I am writing this article - I was surprised to be invited to see myself invited to an event with my “beloved president (and neuroscientist) Marc Tessier-Lavigne.” Belove him? I hardly know him! But I could not help being reminded of the quantity of Stanford memes invoking MTL as my “Daddy” curated and created by my fellow edgy trees.įormer Vice Provost Etchemendy I know slightly better, so I etch here my next sample. To begin a column on Xenofeminism - the most interesting critical movement to appear on Stanford’s campus since Black Lives Matter’s explosive rise and carefully engineered deflation - one must begin elsewhere to avoid calumny. Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne.
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