{"id":6435,"date":"2016-05-15T16:54:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T16:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/camille-paglia-on-free-speech-and-the-modern-campus\/"},"modified":"2016-05-15T16:54:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T16:54:41","slug":"camille-paglia-on-free-speech-and-the-modern-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/camille-paglia-on-free-speech-and-the-modern-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Camille Paglia on Free Speech and the Modern Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/free-speech-the-modern-campus\/\">A rich, historically informed article<\/a>. &#0160;Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Let me give just one example of political correctness run amok in campus women\u2019s studies in the U.S. In 1991, a veteran instructor in English and women\u2019s studies at the Schuylkill campus of Pennsylvania State University raised objections to the presence in her classroom of a print of Francisco Goya\u2019s famous late-18th-century painting, <em>Naked Maja<\/em>. The traditional association of this work with the Duchess of Alba, played by Ava Gardner in a 1958 movie called <em>The Naked Maja<\/em>, has been questioned, but there is no doubt that the painting, now owned by the Prado in Madrid, is a landmark in the history of the nude in art and that it anticipated major 19th-century works like Manet\u2019s <em>Olympia<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SC_PAGLIA_FREES_AP_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SC_PAGLIA_FREES_AP_001\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10195\" height=\"403\" src=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SC_PAGLIA_FREES_AP_001.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">The instructor brought her case to a committee called the University Women\u2019s Commission, which supported her, and she was offered further assistance from a committee member, the campus Affirmative Action officer, who conveyed her belief that there were grounds for a complaint of sexual harassment, based on the \u201chostile workplace\u201d clause in federal regulations. The university, responding to the complaint, offered to change the teacher\u2019s classroom, which she refused. She also refused an offer to move the painting to a less visible place in the classroom or to cover it while she was teaching. No, she was insistent that images of nude women must never be displayed in a classroom \u2014 which would of course gut quite a bit of major Western art since ancient Greece.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rich, historically informed article. &#0160;Excerpt: Let me give just one example of political correctness run amok in campus women\u2019s studies in the U.S. In 1991, a veteran instructor in English and women\u2019s studies at the Schuylkill campus of Pennsylvania State University raised objections to the presence in her classroom of a print of Francisco &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/camille-paglia-on-free-speech-and-the-modern-campus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Camille Paglia on Free Speech and the Modern Campus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-free-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}