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...Lyman Common Room is an informal meeting place located in Agassiz House which hosts events dealing with gender and women's issues. Student activists pressing for a separate women's center have called the Lyman Common Room a possible starting point for a women's center, but say they find it an inadequate substitute...
...author of The Eagle Has Two Heads, Jean Cocteau, was the David Lynch of his day. Both Lynch and Cocteau have garnered multi- media success. In the past year, Lynch has created movies, TV series, commercial, The Eagle Has Two Heads Directed by Jonathan Hamel At the Agassiz Theater Through November 17 comic strips, paintings and albums; Cocteau had a similarly diverse career. The French artist wrote newspaper columns, painted church murals, composed volumes of poetry, directed films and, of course, penned ,many plays. And like Lynch, Cocteau brought an intensely personal vision to his work, a vision which defies...
THERE is a room in Agassiz House called the Lyman Common Room. It is a room primarily for women, yet it is not a women's center. Criticized by some for its shortcomings and praised by others for the achievement it symbolizes, Lyman is a room not of commonality but of contradictions. It is ironically both the result of, and the impetus for, a movement urging Harvard to provide women with a place of their...
...case for a women's center is obvious to anyone who has observed the cramped quarters in Agassiz House where undergraduate women's groups meet. A center would be a place for all undergraduates and graduate students to discuss women's and gender issues and a location for centralized resources for women. Such centers contribute to student life at all other Ivy League schools and many state schools...
...before, students say the single room currently used by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) as a center for women's issues is woefully inadequate. They say that the room, located on the top floor of Agassiz House in Radcliffe Yard, is too small, inconveniently located and inaccessible. Meanwhile, even that facility's existence is in jeopardy. Based on what Radcliffe president Linda S. Wilson has said about her plans for reorganizing Agassiz House, students expect to lose what space they have there, and to be left only with the use of the Lyman Common Room. Although that common room...