More Bad News from Virginia

Dear Professor Howe: As you may recall, I wrote to you describing the state of women\u27s studies at the University of Virginia in the summer of 1975 (Women\u27s Studies Newsletter, Vol. IV, No. 1). Since that time, there has been almost no perceptible change in the administrative policy at Virginia; things seem to be getting worse rather than better. In the last two years, the university has denied tenure to all female and black assistant professors under consideration. The statistics I will quote are almost exactly the same as those cited in 1975

Joyce's moraculous sindbook: a study of Ulysses

(print) xi, 267 p. ; 25 cmAcknowledgments ix -- Introduction 3 -- 1 "Telemachus" : Ghosts and Cannibals 15 -- 2 "Nestor" : The Nightmare of History 37 -- 3 "Proteus" : The Art of Perception "Scylla and Charybdis" : The Artist as God 53 -- 4 "Calypso" : The World of Sensuous Reality "Lotus-Eaters" : The Land of Dream 75 -- 5 "Hades" : The Hibernian Underworld "Aelous" and "Wandering Rocks" : The World as Machine 95 -- 6 "Lestrygonians" and "Sirens" : Food for Men and Gods 123 -- 7 "Cyclops" : Giant and Jew 137 -- 8 "Nausicaa" : Romantic Fantasy "Oxen of the Sun" : Procreative Reality 153 -- 9 "Circe" : Ulysses in Nighttown 181 -- 10 "Eumaeus" and "Ithaca" : Nostos 207 -- 11 "Penelope" : The Flesh Made Word 233 -- Bibliography 253 -- Index 26

The Future of Women\u27s Studies

from SANTA ANA COLLEGE Santa Ana College (SAC), a two-year community college in southern California, is offering a unique program in women\u27s studies. Beginning in the academic year 1975-1976, SAC is making a major in women\u27s studies available. The program is designed to meet a comprehensive set of specific feminist objectives and goals. Accordingly, it is one of the first community colleges in the nation to adopt a commitment to feminism far more solid and long term than the typical patchwork course-here-and-there approach that most two-year colleges use in this subject area... ...from the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA... ...from the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA... ...from SUNY/COLLEGE AT NEW PALTZ..

Incest in the 1990s: reading Anais Nin's 'Father Story'

In the summer of 1933, diarist, author and critic Anaïs Nin joined her father for a short vacation in France. Nin wrote about the trip in her diary afterwards, referring to it as the ‘Father Story.’ In the story, she details how, aged 30, she embarked upon an affair with her father which would last for several months. Rather than displaying the signs of trauma that we have come to expect from the incest narrative such as dissociation, blame and recrimination, the ‘Father Story’ is more ambiguous in its tone. Part-tribute to the father, part-seduction narrative, part-confession, this is a story that resists categorisation – a resistance that has ethical, critical and formal ramifications for our reading of incest narratives. Upon its publication in the early 1990s, critics responded to the ‘Father Story’ as fantastical, excessive and vulgar. These responses form part of a wider American father story during this period; a story about memory, therapy culture, family values and the concealed rules of testimony. This article reads Anaïs Nin’s narrative as a text which raises fundamental questions about why certain father (and daughter) stories are culturally acceptable and others are not

Both helix topology and counterion distribution contribute to the more effective charge screening in dsRNA compared with dsDNA

The recent discovery of the RNA interference mechanism emphasizes the biological importance of short, isolated, double-stranded (ds) RNA helices and calls for a complete understanding of the biophysical properties of dsRNA. However, most previous studies of the electrostatics of nucleic acid duplexes have focused on DNA. Here, we present a comparative investigation of electrostatic effects in RNA and DNA. Using resonant (anomalous) and non-resonant small-angle X-ray scattering, we characterized the charge screening efficiency and counterion distribution around short (25 bp) dsDNA and RNA molecules of comparable sequence. Consistent with theoretical predictions, we find counterion mediated screening to be more efficient for dsRNA than dsDNA. Furthermore, the topology of the RNA A-form helix alters the spatial distribution of counterions relative to B-form DNA. The experimental results reported here agree well with ion-size-corrected non-linear Poisson–Boltzmann calculations. We propose that differences in electrostatic properties aid in selective recognition of different types of short nucleic acid helices by target binding partners

Genetic Epidemiology of Colon Cancer in the Cotton-Top Tamarin (Saguinus oedipus)

Colon cancer is known to be heritable in humans, but the opportunity to investigate the genetic epidemiology of cancer in nonhuman primates has been limited by the size of available populations. The cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) colony at the Oak Ridege Associated Universities (ORAU) Marmoset Research Center is a large population with a high rate of spontaneous colon cancer that has been monitored over several years, thus allowing investigation of the genetic basis for colon cancer in this colony. The presence of colon cancer at death was scored in 392 necropsies at the colony. Genealogical and demographic data for these animals were obtained from colony records. The heritability of the liability to colon cancer was estimated using maximum-likelihood-based pedigree analyses after evaluating the effects of gender, origin (wild-born or laboratory born), and age at death on cancer experience. Cancer rates were not significantly different between males and females or between wild- and laboratory-born animals. Differences in age at death were also statistically insignificant for both laboratory- and wild-born animals. The heritability estimate for the liability to contract colon cancer is 17% for the ORAU cotton-top tamarins. This heritability estimate is not significantly different from zero, indicating no evidence for heritable variation in cancer experience in this population. If genetic factors affect cotton-top tamarin colon cancer, they are fixed or nearly fixed in this population