![]() ![]() Many of you were so weakened by anorexia and bulimia that it took every ounce of your will to get your work in. I say that you have already shown courage: Many of you graduate today in spite of the post-traumatic syndrome of acquaintance rape, which one-fourth of female students undergo. In our definition, the scholar learns womanhood and the woman learns scholarship Plato and Djuna Barnes, mediated to their own enrichment through the eyes of the female body with its wisdoms and its gifts. Let's refuse to have our scholarship and our gender pitted against each other. We lack archetypes for the questing young woman, her trials by fire for how one "becomes a woman" through the chrysalis of education, the difficult passage from one book, one idea to the next. But you, too, in some ways more than your male friends graduating today, have moved into maturity through a solitary quest for the adult self. One "becomes a man" when he undertakes responsibility, or completes a quest. These biological definitions are very different from how we say boys become men. What is usually meant by "You're a real women now"? You "become a woman" when you menstruate for the first time, or when you lose your virginity, or when you have a child. 1 in your survival kit: redefine "becoming a woman." Today you have "become women." But that sounds odd in ordinary usage. I want to give you the commencement talk that was denied to me. But many of the women felt the shame of the powerless: the choking on silence, the complicity, the helplessness. That afternoon, several hundred men were confirmed in the power of a powerful institution. We might be Elis, but we still wouldn't make pornography worth buying. Cavett was using the beauty myth aspect of the backlash: when women come too close to masculine power, someone will draw critical attention to their bodies. We dared not break the silence with hisses or boos, out of respect for our families, who'd come so far and they kept still out of concern for us. There we were, silent in our black gowns, our tassels, our brand new shoes. One year the photos were stolen, and turned up for sale in New Haven's red-light district." His punchline? "The photos found no buyers." At Vassar, they had nude photographs taken of the women in gym class to check their posture. "When I was an undergraduate," I recall he said, "there were no women. Cavett took the microphone and paled at the sight of hundreds of female about-to-be-Yale graduates. The speaker was Dick Cavett, rumored to have been our president's "brother" in an all-male secret society. My own commencement, at Yale, eight years ago, was the Graduation from Hell. This backlash ranges from a Senator using "The Exorcist" against Anita Hill, to beer commercials with the "Swedish bikini team." Today I want to give you a backlash survival kit, a four-step manual to keep the dragons from taking up residence inside your own heads. The class of 1992 is graduating into a violent backlash against the advances women have made over the last 20 years. Please be advised that during the Dinner Dance, anyone looking less than 21 years old may be asked to provide valid photo identification to obtain an alcoholic beverage.Even the best of revolutions can go awry when we internalize the attitudes we are fighting. Scripps requests that guests do not bring their own alcohol to the event. Guests will check in under the name of their graduating senior and will receive a complimentary drink ticket that can be used for alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages. Your graduate will receive three complimentary tickets (one for your student, plus two additional). Any additional tickets are $35.00 per person. Advance purchase is required tickets will not be sold at the door. The Celebration Dinner Dance will be held on Saturday, May 14, 2022, beginning at 7:00 p.m. ![]() All members of a party must be present to occupy a seat. Seats have been reserved for those who have contacted the Public Events office and requested accommodations for disabilities. on the south side of Bowling Green seating will begin at 3:30 p.m. Attendees may begin lining up at 3:00 p.m. Seating is open and available on a first come, first served basis. Registration is required for the Scripps College ceremony, although there is no limit to the amount of guests per graduate who may attend. Registration for Ceremony and Dinner Dance Tiernan Field House parking garage underground parking garage (on Mills Avenue)Īlong 10th Street and 11th Street between Columbia Avenue and Dartmouth AvenueĪdditional ADA parking spaces will be available more details to follow. Parking is available in the following locations: Parking will be at a premium Commencement Weekend.
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