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Lawyer Suing Columbia Now Speaking At Columbia

You'll recall Bwog reporting last week that Business School Alum and self-proclaimed "anti-feminist" Roy Hollander was suing Columbia for offering women's studies courses. Apparently, these courses are discriminatory against men.

Now, according to Bwog tipster Stephanie Quan, some Columbia women are interested in hearing his views. More specifically, the group Women in Science at Columbia have invited him to speak at the school, where he will "give a short talk briefing us on the case against Columbia and then answer any questions from the audience."

The talk is scheduled for tomorrow, August 28th, from 1-2 PM, and the room is TBA Havemeyer 209. Whether it includes free food is unknown at this time.


Brave Business School Alum Combats Evils of Feminism
Roy Den Hollander (he of litigious demeanor at right), a proud business school alum ('97) and self-proclaimed "antifeminist," is suing the University Trustees and the Institute for Research on Women & Gender for using federal aid to promote a "religionist belief system called feminism."

Women's Studies programs, he claims, are "spreading prejudice and fostering animosity and distrust towards men with the result of the wholesale violation of men's rights." And while the College Bulletin claims the major is "intended to introduce students to the long arc of feminist discourse about the cultural and historical representation of nature, power, and the social construction of difference," the super-secret version explicitly states that the purpose is to "demonize men and exalt women in order to justify discrimination against men based on collective guilt."

Columbia and Graciela Chichilnisky: A Legal History

Meet Graciela Chichilnisky, an econ professor who was just awarded a $200,000 settlement from Columbia, which is roughly the amount of your tuition or any one product from Nussbaum & Wu. She has been suing Columbia on and off since 1990 (back when some of you Terrible 12s weren't even born!), claiming gender discrimination and unequal pay, claims that were also previously settled in 1995 for $500,000. As a result of the earlier suit, Chichilnisky's salary was raised from $60,000 to $110,000.

So then, in 2000, Chichilnisky stopped teaching math and started working exclusively in the econ. department because Columbia was terminating the United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization, which she had chaired. She found that her office in the Mathemetics building was hers no longer. "It's almost impossible to believe this is happening," she told Spec. "The destruction and removal of one's office space, without notice is like a violation of one's physical space." Columbia repsponded that the school is crunched for space and that Chichilnisky wasn't making full use of her math office.

She filed another lawsuit claiming that her pay was less than that of her male counterparts, and that in dismantling her office, Columbia "has retaliated against her by breaching the terms of the settlement." In turn, Columbia filed counterclaims, charging that Chichilnisky had a secret second job -- she was the founder and CEO of a multimillion dollar corporation -- and that she never disclosed that to anyone in Low. According to CU, this was a breach of the previous settlement agreement.


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