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Christian Century, March 7, 2001

* Feminist author Mary Daly will remain in retirement from Boston College after she reached a court settlement with the Catholic-run campus. She came under fire in 1998 when a male student demanded admission to a women-only feminist ethics course. After saying she'd rather resign, the college took that as a resignation. Daly, 72, sued twice to regain her tenured position and damages, but a recent announcement disclosed no terms except to say the author, whose latest book is Amazon Grace, would not return to the faculty where she began teaching in 1966.

* Recently inaugurated as president of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, James A. Donahue would like to expand GTU'S ecumenical character to one that's even more broadly interreligious. The consortium embraces nine seminaries in the San Francisco Bay area and a Center for Jewish Studies. It has had ties to a Buddhist center in Berkeley. But Donahue will look for Muslim, Hindu and evangelical Protestant contacts as well. Donahue, a GTU Ph.D., has been president of GTU since July. He served as professor of theology and social ethics at Georgetown University for 15 years and Georgetown's dean of students since 1993.