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-Send in the Clowns
Subject: Send in the Clowns
The Silverfoxes Clubhouse server seems to
have been down all night and this morning.
I am trying to contact them (on the East Coast
of the U.S.A.) to see what's wrong, but meanwhile
I have uploaded yesterday's Silverfoxes Club
List Digest 016 to the Web. It's in another
domain and should not be affected by the
other server.
I am telling you this because some of the mail
came back that contained the midi (music)
playing Stephen Sondheim's beautiful "Send
in the Clowns." I guess some servers can't
handle a file of that type. Sorry.
But as I promised in the posting, you can go
hear it on the Web in the new digest at
http://www.boxersfoxes.com/Digests/Digest016.html
and also see the picture of gay silverfox
Stephen Sondheim.
The pictures are all stripped from the digest,
but I have started putting in some of the
article-related pix with the on-line digest.
Not the nude pix. Those will go into the
Silverfoxes Club Image Archives for
your private viewing as members.
Please note that I have changed the username
and password yesterday and announced it
to you on the list.
I am going to establish another set of archives
at the Snooker Club soon, but your free
membership in the Silverfoxes Club will not
get you through that members-only door. The
limited revenue from the Snooker Club
memberships is what keeps the Silverfoxes
Clubhouse free. Being on the Web and
using a fabulous amount of bandwidth is not
cheap! The Clubhouse is a gobbler of bandwidth
- -- thousands of people in there every day.
Speaking of gobbling bandwidth, I didn't
even know what that was when I first got
active on the Web in 1997. I didn't know how to
upload my first Web column, Boxer's Shorts,
and there was no Clubhouse at that time.
I was in somebody else's domain, in
Georgia (U.S.A.) The webmaster was a foxhunter
who didn't know what I looked like. All he knew
was that he liked my postings to the list
we were on. When he bought his domain, he
asked me do a column for him.
Shortly thereafter, a boyfriend of mine got
me to take off my clothes when we were
shacked up at a Motel Six in Palm Springs
and pose for the camera. No way was I
going to pose in the nude! I kept on my
briefs. I sent that picture to the webmaster
in Georgia just to show him what I looked
like.
You have to know I was very new at the
Silverfoxes Syndrome (which I named). I
had only stumbled across it at Chardees in
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, in mid-1997. I had
thought my life was over. Finished. Finito.
Six months later, I was writing a column
on the Web and people were beginning to know
my name, and the webmaster LOVED the
little Polaroid photo I sent him (in my underwear).
He put it on the Web and then asked for more.
So I stripped all the way and made a nude
pictorial which the webmaster put on his
domain along with other pix of old men. and
then his domain really flew. It flew so fast
and so high that he had to cut his site back
because it was using so much bandwidth
and had started to cost him a fortune.
The he suddenly met a charming silverfox,
gave up his site and moved to Florida where,
I hope, he lives in domestic bliss to this day.
So there I was with no place to put my
column or my pix. I thought my roller coaster
ride was over -- when out of the blue
another foxhunter from the South who had
seen my pix and thought I was hot volunteered
to open up a small site just to feature me.
It was an offer I could not refuse. and THAT
is how I found out about bandwidth getting
eaten alive. The foxhunter contacted me the first
weekend my column and pictures went up
on his tiny site. He was breathless. He told
me he had a stream of visitors viewing
my pix at an average rate of 400 per hour night and
day. He went over the top. He couldn't afford
to keep it up past the first of the week!
Long story short....some other Internet friends
from convinced me to go on the Web myself.
The next week the Clubhouse was born.
Since then, the Clubhouse has been host to
several million unique visits downloading
mostly pictures even more millions of times.
What hungry bears! Bandwidth is their meat!
That first nude pictorial of mine is still at the
Clubhouse. It's called "Slippery When Wet," a
name given it by a gentleman in England.
One of the pictures from it is a Virtual
Greeting Card at the Clubhouse, called "Wish
You Were Here." It's the only card with me on it
presently on that page. I have attached it to
this posting.
Which reminds me, people are already sending
out scores of the new Halloween cards since
I made them this weekend, plus a lot of the
other cards which are there. There will be
half a dozen Thanksgiving cards, too, but
not till after Trick or Treat on October 31.
Subject: "Don't ask, don't tell, military go to hell!"
Ben Boxer comments on the below:
The military came calling, but the only
person in proper uniform was Mr.
McKewen. See the end of the story.
Headline:
Text:
Like some colleges and graduate
programs, the law school has barred
military recruiters because the
Defense Department refuses to
employ men or women who are openly
gay.
The school reluctantly agreed to
admit a recruiter after the Defense
Department issued regulations in
January saying that it would
withdraw all research funds from a
university if any of its divisions kept
its recruiters out.
Until this year, the department
withheld its funds just from the
division that barred the recruiters.
The earlier policy meant that the law
school, which has long been known as
a congenial school for gay students,
lost about $75,000 in student aid.
But the university had more at stake.
It receives more than $200 million in
Defense Department research funds,
about two-thirds of which go to its
medical school. The general counsel's
office at the university advised the law
school over the summer that in light of
the new regulations, it should allow a
recruiter to visit.
While the school allowed Capt. Ann
H. Zgrodnik, a recruiter from the
Army Judge Advocate General's
Corps, to spend yesterday in Lipton
Hall, many faculty members, students
and administrators made clear their
distaste for the visit.
About 100 students in pink armbands
and neon stickers turned out in the
common room at the law school's
D'Agostino Hall on West Third Street
to voice their dismay in a lively but
orderly protest.
"Don't ask, don't tell, military go to
hell," they chanted.
John Sexton, the law school dean,
said in a letter to the faculty that
members of the law school would
explore "whether the new regulations
might be challenged as illegal, and
how the N.Y.U. Law School might
contribute to such an effort."
Stephen Gillers, vice dean of the law
school, said that the school itself could
not bring a lawsuit but that individual
faculty members, students or the
university could. He said the
Association of American Law
Schools, the American Council on
Education and other education groups
in Washington had protested the new
regulations to the Defense
Department.
The law school also decided that
every time a military recruiter visited
the school, it would publicize the
military's unwillingness to sign the
school's nondiscrimination policy.
Many law school faculty members
also signed a public statement saying
they deplored the new Defense
Department recruiting policy because
it compromised their freedom to set
ethical standards for student
recruiting and "conscripts us into
complicity with policies that unjustly
degrade fellow persons."
In a statement released by university
officials, Captain Zgrodnik declined
to be interviewed. But Lt. Col.
Catherine Abbott, a spokeswoman for
the Defense Department, said
yesterday that allowing the military to
recruit on campuses "is the law"
made by Congress.
"We want students to be able to make
informed decisions," she said. "We
are not asking for any greater access
than anyone else has."
Martha Rudd, a spokeswoman for the
Army, said yesterday that 23 schools
either turned away Army recruiters
last year or gave them unequal
access, like requiring them to
interview in less desirable places.
Some professors who joined the
protest yesterday said they opposed
military recruiting because the
Defense Department would not abide
by the nondiscriminatory policies
other recruiters endorse.
"It is particularly galling to be forced
to do this under regulations that I
think are illegal," said Sylvia A. Law,
a law school professor and
chairwoman of the school's placement
committee, who said she might file a
lawsuit over the department's new
regulations.
If there was any dissension from the
protest, it was not visible yesterday.
Some of the protesters signed up for
interviews with Captain Zgrodnik.
Richard McKewen, a third-year law
student and editor in chief of the
N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social
Change, told the cheering crowd that
he had told the recruiter that by
working for the military, "You are
complicit in your institution's bigotry,
and you personally are not welcome
here."
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Did
you tell her you were gay?"
Mr. McKewen grinned and gestured
to his costume, which included a
golden tiara and a black feather boa,
as well as cargo shorts and sneakers.
"If she couldn't read the signals," he
said, "then the military's worse off
than we thought."
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