{"id":1133181,"date":"2023-07-14T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=289001"},"modified":"2023-07-14T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T05:50:08","slug":"affirmative-action-and-me-a-tale-of-an-old-boys-network-teaching-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/14\/affirmative-action-and-me-a-tale-of-an-old-boys-network-teaching-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirmative Action and Me: A Tale of an Old Boys\u2019 Network, Teaching and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1980s I felt guilty about using an old boys\u2019 network to secure a teaching position at Sonoma State University (SSU), a branch of the California State University system. I even discussed my sense of guilt in therapy with a psychiatrist at Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinic. He suggested that I had  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/14\/affirmative-action-and-me-a-tale-of-an-old-boys-network-teaching-and-politics\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/14\/affirmative-action-and-me-a-tale-of-an-old-boys-network-teaching-and-politics\/\">Affirmative Action and Me: A Tale of an Old Boys\u2019 Network, Teaching and Politics<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/14\/affirmative-action-and-me-a-tale-of-an-old-boys-network-teaching-and-politics\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1980s I felt guilty about using an old boys\u2019 network to secure a teaching position at Sonoma State University (SSU), a branch of the California State University system. I even discussed my sense of guilt in therapy with a psychiatrist at La&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137419,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133181\/revisions\/1137419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}