The oboist alleging anti-gay discrimination in his dismissal from the Buffalo Philharmonic will have his case heard by New York’s state Division of Human Rights. “Roach filed a state discrimination claim in December [2003] and less than two months later, in February 2004, was denied tenure. Roach then filed a second complaint alleging retaliation by the BPO.”
Tag: 05.21.07
Culture Clash, Minnesota Style
The Minnesota Legislature has voted to put a constitutional amendment dedicating millions of dollars to the arts and outdoors conservation before the state’s voters. But the hunters, anglers, boaters and cultural advocates who’ve been pushing for the amendment haven’t been getting along terribly well, and still to be decided is the prickly issue of how the new funding would be divided up.
Report: Europe’s Top Colleges Need To Get Better
European universities and the governments that fund them are being warned that they will be overtaken by rapidly improving Asian schools if they don’t move swiftly to modernize and improve. The consequences of a dip in prestige could be dire, not only for the schools but for European businesses as well.
Is Art The New Politics?
Madeleine Bunting says that artists have begun taking on the roles that increasingly cautious politicians are afraid to play. “As professional politics becomes ever more remote, the most fraught controversies of our time are migrating into art… Art can never do the messy business of politics – the negotiation and compromise. But politicians are now grappling with a new politics about how to change the way people behave in their private lives: how they eat, travel, shop, exercise, drink. And art can open minds and change hearts in a way that our politics is singularly failing to do.”