Magazine Opening Thought – News /news Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:07:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 /wp-content/themes/b/bates-framework/styles/images/bates-favicon.png Magazine Opening Thought – News /news 32 32 Opening Thought: Emily Kane /news/2013/03/10/opening-thought-emily-kane/ /news/2013/03/10/opening-thought-emily-kane/#respond Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:29:56 +0000 /news/?p=63310 “Gender is not a straightforward amplification of underlying biological differences between males and females; rather, gender is constructed through social processes and enforced through social mechanisms.” — Emily Kane, Professor of Sociology

From Emily Kane’s book The Gender Trap: Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls (NYU Press, 2012).

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Opening Thought: Julian Agyeman /news/2012/06/15/opening-thought-spring-2012julian-agyeman/ /news/2012/06/15/opening-thought-spring-2012julian-agyeman/#respond Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:00:16 +0000 /news/?p=63670 My green colleagues moan about cutting down rainforests, and how there may be a cure for cancer in that piece of rainforest cut down. But what about the human potential to cure cancer that we’re wasting in the minds of young African American men who are more likely in prison rather than in college? — Julian Agyeman, environmental justice advocate and author

Source: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Memorial Service of Worship, Jan. 15, 2012, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Chapel

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