Comments (1) Here’s the link to the KRCL interview I did about Romantic Paternalism. It was a little odd, but interesting. I don’t think the interviewer knew much about the topic & wasn’t the best at asking questions.
My partner in crime, Sarah Vranes, did an excellent job. Since she is heading up the Save the WRI cause at BYU she had a lot of good info to give.
Please, read the info on this site & sign this petition to create a Women’s Research Council at BYU.
Women have been doing a lot of important things for a very long time. For example, my current law school was founded by two women in 1898. It is the first law school in the world founded by women.
Ellen Spencer Mussey
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Okay, so last week I presented my senior thesis research at BYU’s Inquiry Conference (mentioned in a previous post). Everyone said I did well, although I feel I did better the week before when I presented at the Utah Conference for Undergraduate Research. If you are bored enough to want to watch my presentation then click on the following link “Click Here to Watch My Presentation: The Waking Tiger and the American Dream” and you will be guided to the Inquiry Conference website. I tried to put the video into this post but it was not happening.
Secondly, Kate and I went to a presentation by Jane Goodall called, “Reason for Hope,” and it was wonderful (click for previous post). The presentation was inspiring, motivating, and fun. Afterward Kate, being the greatest of all companions, waited in line with me for an hour to get our books signed by her.
Oh and a photo taken with her.
Tonight I am going to a lecture by Michael Pollan (book review), one of my favorite authors about food culture and the American food-like-substances system that is killing our environment, our health, and our happiness, I will try and get a picture with him for the site. Actually my goal is to get him to sign a copy of one of his books personalized to www.KateandNeil.com, we’ll see how it goes.
Not sure if you’ve heard, but today it’s been confirmed that Dick Cheney will be giving BYU’s commencement speech during April graduation (click here for news article). This is scandal. Hasn’t BYU taken a non partisan position? Yet never in all my years at this university have I heard of a liberally minded politician being invited on campus to speak. Inviting Cheney to BYU will only reinforce the mind boggling asinine status-quo that Mormons have to be republican. In addition Cheney is a crook, war profiter and monger, and a liar. We do not need another corrupt role model like the BYU professors involved in the BYU/Mitt Romney scandal, Kyle Sampson, the BYU grad who recently resigned as Gonzales’s aid involved in firing 9 anti-Bush prosecutors, or Utah senator Oren Hatch , a BYU grad, who has accepted contributions from the alcohol, tobacco, and gambling associations totaling $75,000 in 2000 alone to teach more BYU students that it’s o.k. to steal, cheat, bribe, intimidate, and kill in the name of business, capitalism, or republicanism. Sorry BYU board of directors and administration you will find no support from me (or anyone else with a conscience) on this one.
Saturday afternoon Kate and I, after running my stool sample to the Central Utah Clinic only to find it closed, met family members at BYU’s fine art’s building for the matinée of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Oklahoma!‘ Having been warned by my brother, Jesse, “it’s alright, but really really long. And a lot of random dancing scenes,” I took my seat, took a deep breath and gritted my teeth.
4 brutal hours, it finally ended.
The play was lengthy, dull, and expensive. I’m not sure anyone in my group enjoyed it, and it was all we could do to keep half of them from leaving during the break. Beside finding the play a little slow and archaic, one of the play’s main messages stood out to me as being deeply important for America’s current state of affairs. Jud Fry, the play’s villain, is the proud owner of an extensive pornography collection. He is a cankered individual who is fascinated with Laurey Williams, the heroin, and thinks of nothing but having her even if forced. Towards the end of the play he hints to Laurey he is going to take advantage of her. Of course when offered tempting phonographic images, the hero, Curly McLain, turns it down.
While many of you might not agree, I strong feel pornography play a major role in fostering sexual crimes. Without a doubt most child abusers and many criminals have had lengthy excursions with porn. A recent documentary, ‘Traffic Control, the Movie,’ discuss current societal pornography problems through interview with ex. porn star, producers, physiologists, and addicts (I have only seen snippets of the documentary planning on watching it tomorrow). I believe having continued uncontrolled accesses to pornography for anyone any age, is having dire consequences to our society at large. It seems there is an escalating number of arrests each week relating to strange sexual offenses, and most of them mention pornography.
I am not sure what should be done, but something must be done.
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