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Although Joyce was "happy to re-affirm the extremely important role that women play in the life of Boston College... they are in every sense of the term first class citizens," he stated that "while it appears clear that there should be some high administrative office dealing with the particular problems of women students, it is not certain that this would best be entitled 'Dean of Women...
...course there are tensions; our entire society is permeated by stereotyping of homosexuals, and when homosexuals openly affirm their homosexuality the distortions and fears behind the stereotypes also come out into the open. But when any woman feels upset by the presence of gay women, she should acknowledge her feelings, discuss them with other women, and try to understand where her feelings come from...
Brown has an impish solution. Already in the hopper is his resolution for a constitutional amendment to abolish the Senate and create in its place a House of Lords, whose duties would be nonexistent. "To qualify," reads his resolution, "each member must swear or affirm publicly that he is a sincere candidate for the President of the United States...
...left of total fulfillment through old-fashioned marriage. She loves her husband Paul, a college professor who is a scholar of social disorder. She is inordinately proud of the body that brings her pleasure and has borne her two children. But her sharpest perceptions affirm her worst fears: "My life hardly differs from that of an Indian squaw settled in a tepee on the same Manhattan land centuries ago. Pick, clean, prepare, throw out, dig a hole, bury the waste-she was my sister. She would understand why there should be one day of total fast each week...
Moscow's top-priority diplomatic project, a European Security Conference designed to affirm the status quo on the Continent. In their final communique, the NATO members announced that they would attend such a conference only if: 1) the Big Four reach an agreement on the position of West Berlin, and 2) other "ongoing talks," especially SALT, are "proceeding favorably...