Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Webster said the reason the library does not currently require its users to present identification is that library officials wish to give ministers and students from other areas access to the library. At present, guards are only required to check books that people carry out of the building...
...Census Bureau report caused much Congressional concern over the access of middle-income groups to higher education. Increasing college costs seems to be "squeezing out" these groups, since they could neither afford tuition raises, nor qualify for scholarships...
Horner says, then, Radcliffe's purpose is not merely to provide women with equal access so they can become female Harvard men. For women to deny their identity in order to achieve equality "is exactly six steps away from being equal," she says...
Horner says undergraduate women of 100 years ago were examples of people "who go beyond." The first group of women undergraduates had less chance to gain access to the "male world" than women undergraduates today, Horner says. However, because of heightened awareness of society's ills gained through their education, these women created new professions, such as social work, and fought for reforms, such as child labor laws, Horner says. Radcliffe will honor women who have continued in "the great tradition of recognizing possibilities" at its centennial convocation next September, Horner adds...
...Harvard-Radcliffe agreements took care of most of the technical legalities such as affording women equal access, Bailey says. But other situations that women find non-supportive--situations "rooted in following traditional assumptions of students who have been male"--should be explored and probably changed, Bailey says...