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Jumping into the fray surrounding the issue of women and minorities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), a group of seniors unveiled the Alternative Senior Gift Fund (ASGF...
...Fund's inception, Megan L. Peimer '97, spokesperson for the Alternative Senior Gift Coalition, said that the ASGF would provide a substitute for the traditional Senior Gift Fund for students dissatisfied with University policies on a variety of issues, but would focus on the tenuring of women and minority Faculty members...
...Coalition--a group which includes graduating seniors as well as other undergraduates and faculty advisors--set up the ASGF as an escrow fund, which will be withheld until there is "proof Harvard is making a good faith effort to address these issues," according to Peimer...
...ASGF organizers said they considered a variety of issues as protest points--including randomization, section size and ethnic studies--but picked women and minority tenuring because of its visibility and practicality...
...lack of women and minority and women professors in many of the FAS departments has negatively impacted our education: We have missed out on new perspectives, new research, and new theories. This condition for release of the ASGF was not arbitrarily chosen. There have been numerous statistics, Faculty-generated reports, and a plethora of recent Crimson articles proving that Harvard has failed to recruit adequate numbers of women and minority professors. These same media have suggested various means by which the gender and ethnic balance of the faculty could be improved. Thus, the ASGF money could be attained...