A letter from the DU:
Letter: WRI lies
If you didn’t sign the petition in support of the Women’s Research Institute Thursday at their demonstration, consider yourself lucky because it would have been a huge waste of time.
The rally was intended to spread more lies and rumors about why the WRI was dissolved.
For example, their Facebook page does little to explain the real issues, saying that “there is deep symbolic meaning in the elimination of the WRI, deeper than a lot of us would like to know.”
I’m sure many of us would like to know what that “deeper meaning” actually is because from what I can tell the reasons for eliminating the WRI have been made explicitly clear.
BYU Academic Vice President John S. Tanner has outlined several reasons as to why the institute was reorganized. To start, the study of women’s issues at BYU should not be confined to only one institution, and the restructuring of the WRI acknowledges the fact that women’s studies at BYU is already a part of the academic disciplines.
Also, the reorganization will more than triple the amount of discretionary money available for women’s research at BYU, so the protesters’ claim that women’s research will receive less funding is a lie! Finally, don’t forget that this decision was well thought out by highly spiritual and intellectual individuals.
It is morally wrong for us to question the judgment of our inspired leaders. Stop crying about the loss of your feminist club. Men seem to be doing perfectly fine without one.
Stefan Gardner
Heber City
For more info on the WRI closing (i.e. feminist lies), see:
here
and
here.
Sometimes I hate so many things about the way this place (some people here?) chooses to be.
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