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Sunday, June 27, 2004

CU Students to Chaucer: GO FUCK YOURSELF


(A C*NTES d'HOFFMAN UPDATE - see UD, 6/16, 6/17, 6/19)


From Rocky Mountain News:


Rachel Bandy, 32, a sociology graduate student who teaches a class on social conflict, found [medieval scholar and CU president] Hoffman's description of the C-word ridiculous.

"Nobody reads Chaucer," said Bandy, who helped organize the protest Friday. "The next thing you know we'll bring back the iron maiden for students late to class."

Bandy said she spent a decade in law enforcement where she dealt with serial rapists and people who hated her because she assisted in having their children taken away. But Bandy said she was never called the C-word.

"I had to come back to academia to hear (the C-word)," Bandy said.

The letter delivered by the students requested a formal and public apology by Hoffman.

"Your insensitive and shocking assertion that (C-word) could be used in polite conversation and/or as as a term of endearment is indicative of your complete incomprehension - or pure denial - of the imbalance of power, with respect to sex and gender, on CU's campus," the letter states.