Harvard returns money to Jane Fonda

	posted by D on Sunday February 02, @05:11PM from the Education dept.
	CJ writes "Actress Jane Fonda has pulled back most of a $12.5 million pledge to Harvard's Graduate School of Education, ending the school's plans for a major research center on gender in education. Fonda's intent was to study the focus of education as it relates to girls only, despite the fact that during the past two decades, most (all?) gender specific studies have been on girls. The most influential study done on gender in education was by Carol Gilligan, which lacked empirical support to back up her claims (even today she still will not provide her research for analysis). Perhaps academic honesty prevailed here, as the media claims that Fonda had to 'scale back'' the project because of concerns about the economy. I think the truth is that some of her money may have benefited boys, who are the only known casualty of the impact feminism has had on secondary education, so Jane pulled her money out." Read an article here.

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Economics or Politics? (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Monday February 03, @09:20AM EST (#1) Was, as this article states, the money taken back by Fonda strictly because of economic concerns? Is the real reason the one stated, that this type of program/center being proposed, is just to costly to maintain? There was only a specific dollar value mentioned for the amount of money that would go to construction and set up. The cost to maintain (and operate), though not specifically mentioned, seems to be the reason the plug was pulled. I would prefer to think that someone came to their senses and realized that women's studies is nothing more than an unscholarly, extremist, radical feminist, academic boondoggle running out of control at taxpayers expense and pulled the plug. Let us hope that lots of people are begining to realize the prejudice, bigotry and outright hatred for men that these unAmerican programs engender in the impressionable minds of our youth and tomorrow's leaders. As far as "Hanoi Jane," whose politics has a long history of endangering the lives of American men through her activism, let us pray that the public and leadership of this country will one day hold her to account for her disloyalty. Some would say that "disloyalty" is too mild a word for what many have already called "treason." One thing appears certain in my opinion, "We common American folk have all paid far too heavy a price for the indulgence shown to this "spoiled little rich girl's" malicious mischief promoting the oppression of men." Ray

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