Rally to support basketball team tomorrow, Wed., April 11, 1:30 pm

"CALLING THE RUTGERS COMMUNITY TO

Rally in support of our Rutgers Women's Basketball Team and
Take a Stand Against Racism and Sexism on Talk Radio

...Radio talk show host Don Imus attacked the Rutgers' women's basketball team using racist and sexist slurs.

RUTGERS NEEDS TO TALK BACK!

Come to the RALLY

Wednesday, April 11
1:30 p.m.

Cooper Green
Corner of George Street and Nichol Avenue
Douglass College Campus

RALLY ORGANIZERS: Institute for Women's Leadership and participating members
Douglass College
Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Center for American Women and Politics
Institute for Research on Women
Center for Women's Global Leadership
Center for Women and Work
Institute for Women and Art"

Send e-mail about depressing remarks about RU womens basketball

You can e-mail Westwoodone, the radio conglomerate that syndicates Imus's show, and ask them to get him off the air:

Peter Kosann
President and Chief Executive Officer
peterj_kosann@westwoodone.com
Bart Tessler
Sr. VP, Network News / Talk
bart_tessler@westwoodone.com

You can also e-mail the producers of his show on MSNBC.
Imus@msnbc.com

Do not mess with Rutgers women's basketball

OMG, I can't believe that racist, sexist shit was said on national radio about the Rutgers women's basketball team. (See fitting tribute to team by V Girl.) That is so fucked up. This radio guy should be fired, for sure.

It is weird because last night I had a dream that I was watching TV about the ceremony Rutgers had to honor the basketball team, and on TV (in dream) they were like, Pres. McCormick looked at his watch right in the middle of the ceremony, hurting the feelings of all the basketball players, who then marched sadly in a parade down College Ave.

(This was a dream, right? This did not really happen (?))

Anyway, the team did a great job getting to the championship and I say right on to them. And I will beat up people who disparage them or look at their watches during the celebration.

(Then I had a dream that I was supposed to fly from the U.S. to Berlin but I kept missing the flight because I couldn't pack my suitcase. CC was trying to help me. I tried to call the airline but I couldn't because Lisa (roommate here in Berlin) had the phone. After waking up I told this to one of my other roommates, and she was like, 'I guess there is something going on with the phone?'

Well, it's just 4 of us sharing it now. That's all. We spawned and are now 7 roommates, did I mention that? (Not literally spawned, but one time in this house that did happen and there was a baby roommate.))

One month

Today it's one month till my flight back to the U.S. That means just one more month to research. That means just one more month to sadly pine away! Pine away into a slumped lump in a corner, with a fading flower in my hair.

You know how you were worried when you decided to go to grad school because professors are so socially bizarre? I was worried about this. I wrote a note and hid it somewhere that said that when I start to get weird, people should tell me. Now I think it is for sure happening. For example, I have started this Radius Prohibited Area which is a 5-foot-radius area around my body that people are not supposed to enter. You, reader, are one of 3 people who know about the RPA so as you can imagine people enter it all the time, like on the subway or in the grocery store line. Sigh.

Also, and I'm so sorry that Dissertation Year isn't more political, but please note that finally (this year, I think) the U.S. media is forced to write about global climate change (CRISIS) as a scientific fact, and now even U.S. government representatives to a U.N. commission had to agree. We are talking about a major major world-wide problem and big changes to our way of life if we don't do something. Please tell a friend.

Hey there, congrats!

"July 26, 1933
Chancellor Adolf Hitler,
Berlin, Germany

My dear Sir:

Because of my honest belief in birth control and sterilization when called for to protect the future generations, I was greatly impressed with the news that you have been instrumental in a Sterilization Law being passed in your country. May I offer my congratulations, and a wish for the honest enforcement of the law.

Respectfully yours,

Betty Carpenter Webb
Providence, R.I."

BArch R 1501/126248

Golf is actually a lot more dangerous than you maybe thought.

What's the fire ants rule?

Mom: My shot landed right on top of a fire ant nest the size of half of a basketball - that gray sand with holes but no visible ants. I carefully lifted my ball off the nest and dropped it nearby, but not before one of the ants got in a good bit on the back of my leg. It itches like mad, but is getting better. Golfing in Florida.

I only want to sterilize you.

I feel bad because when I talk to CC on the phone she tells me all about happy yoga times and the spring and the blossoming trees, but when she is like, 'how was your day?' I tell her all about sterilization. STERILIZATION is basically all I can talk about.

I was looking in this sterilization file at the archive (actually, I am sitting at the archive right at this moment and it's right next to me--pictured--see?) and then I'm like, 'wait a minute, wow, my German is getting really good...no, oh man, this is all in English!' 'Cause the German govt. was thinking about passing a sterilization law and the U.S. already had them in like 12 states. And the Germans were really impressed by that and collected all this information on the U.S. laws.

Yes, reader, when it came to eugenics, the U.S. was the major role model for Germany.

In this file, everyone keeps being like, 'let's sterilize these (mentally ill and handicapped, blind, deaf, 'morally' degenerate, homeless, etc.) people. It is so not a big deal!'

Like: "Hey! I only want to sterilize you."

That does not make me feel happy, when someone says that. I am like, 'no, man.' And do not clone me, either. Just lay off.' You know?