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Arguments:

• The Catt Hall Controversy Could Have Been Avoided
• Could have been avoided -- ISU Editorial November 6, 1995
• No, Had the Chance to Speak Up (Kirk Smith)

• Catt was politically racist, and that's okay with us -- we understand that it was necessay (Product of Her Times)
• Racism and Carrie Chapman Catt today (Jane Cox)
• Strategic Sacrifices (Elizabeth Hoffman)
• Three Cheers (Farwell Brown)

    but not okay with us
• Prejudice, discrimination and racism different (Laurisha McClarin)
• Can we talk (Celia Naylor-Ojurongbe)
• Take All of Catt (Lisa Hermsen and Laurie McCartan)
• Acceptable to Whom? (George Jackson)

• Catt is Taken Out of Context
• Catt's words taken out of context (Erica M. Hanson, Sharon Haselhoff, Ginger Hale, and Molly Foster)
• Ignorant of Context
• Catt in Context (Kel Munger)
• Take All of Catt (Lisa Hermsen and Laurie McCartan)
• Challenging gender discrimination while endorsing race discrimination (Lisa Hermsen)

 

• Catt was Product of Her Times
• Strategic Sacrifices (Elizabeth Hoffman)
• Three Cheers (Farwell Brown)
• Acceptable to Whom? (George Jackson)
• Which perspective? (Lynn Wellnitz)

• Catt Got the Vote for All Women
• Working for the truth (Blue Maas)

• Catt Recanted (or did she?)
• Chapman Catt's out of the bag (Tim Frerking/Source for this column about Catt: Jane Cox)
• When one Changes an Argument Just to Win (Theresa Wilson)
• Where's the evidence Catt recanted? (Kel Munger, 2/27/97)

Note:  no one has ever responded to the question of whether Catt recanted or apologized in later speeches

• Catt was friends with a Black woman who said good things about her.  Therefore she couldn’t have been racist
• Racism and Carrie Chapman Catt today (Jane Cox)
• Strategic Sacrifices (Elizabeth Hoffman)
• Prejudice, discrimination and racism different (Laurisha McClarin)
• Can we talk? Racism now and then (Celia Naylor-Ojurongbe)

• Don’t you know the Majority Rules?
• Majority Rules (Doug Tschopp)
• Check, please (Gabriel Clausen)

• No One Cares
• No One Cares (Robert Carter)
• Some of us Care a Lot (Lisa Hermsen)

• Other Buildings and Streets were named after racist men . . .   a precedent has been set.  It would be unfair to change that tradition for women.
• Can't do That (Doug Tschopp)
• A Name's History (Simon Huss)

• What About the Donors of Catt Hall?  It's all about money.
• It's About Money (Michael Klocke)
• Of Money and Catt (Brian Johnson)

• Can’t Revise History -- once it’s written, that's it.
• What's in a name? Revisionist history revisited (Robert Zeis)
• Re-vision History; and tell the whole truth (Milton McGriff)
• Some truths superce history (Tim Frerking)
• Historical Perspectives (Lynn Wellnitz)
• The Real Catt Hall (Milton McGriff)
• A Name's History (Simon Huss)
• Acceptable to Whom? (George Jackson)

 

 

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