It was more than just a little ironic when, today at noon, I walked across 
to the UC from my office in Brock.  To my right I could see the table where 
several young women were working on the Clothesline Project tee shirts that 
tell the story of someone who has suffered domestic violence.  To my left I 
could see and hear a disc jockey who, at that point, was playing a Rap 
number in which I could clearly hear the word that starts with a "B" and 
rhymes with witch.  The kind of disrespect of women that use of that word 
entails is completely at odds with the concepts that the Clothesline 
Project and the Green Dot program espouse.  I would think that student 
activities that hold the potential to promote disrespect for women and 
violence against women would never be allowed sanctioned space and time on 
our cmpus.

Lala
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"No hay libro tan malo que no tenga algo bueno."
         -Miguel de Cervantes- Don Quijote de la Mancha
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"I divide all readers into two classes:  Those who read to
remember and those who read to forget." -William Phelps
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Oralia Preble-Niemi, Ph.D.
Professor and Head
Foreign Languages & Literatures
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN  37403
Telephone:  423-425-4273
Fax:  423-425-4097
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