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said. In the weeks leading up to J-Term, all 14 students agreed to community guidelines, including two specific to Inauguration Day. For one, they vowed to stick together, making the decision to navigate the event in one or two groups. Second, as their instructors suggested, they planned to be “neutral observers.” The morning of the inauguration, Sill, Schletter and eight students boarded a Metro train at Bethesda Station and headed downtown. Six other students in the class left more than an hour

. It is an identity molded from without. If transposed to the educational front, one might construe professional education in a parallel fashion, as the imbuing of factual knowledge and skills requisite for a career within a particular professional group. In this sense, an English course that might be based upon learning and using the bibliographic guidelines of the Modern Language Association would have a professional orientation. And a language course designed primarily to prepare students for

adopt a feminist dimension. Teachers need access to feminist perspectives on the language problems as they are perceived within the culture being taught. These perspectives should be integrated into the curriculum. We need to develop a model to evaluate and monitor textbooks and other materials analogous to the non-sexist guidelines adopted by publishers. We must include cross-cultural women’s perspectives to counteract ethnocentrism and cultural imperialism. This means introducing materials that

. I had some ridiculously hard classes, discovered that it’s almost impossible to avoid drama on a campus where everyone knows each other, lost a lot of sleep to write papers (or hang out with friends–let’s be honest), and made a few egregious mistakes. But there were also a lot of moments during my time here that were absolutely magical. I’ll always remember the dinnertime conversations with my T-stad buddies, winning a trip to the roller derby with Dr. Graham at the Women’s Center auction