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Indeed, stereotypes of the Radcliffe Woman as the "bitchy Cliffie" or the radical feminist still exist, making many women reluctant to assert their Radcliffe allegiances. As one student says, "The only time Radclffe exists is when the guys want to make...
...Radcliffe has to make itself more visible," Walsh agrees. She admits that it is harder for a women's community to assert itself at Harvard then at all-women's institutions, but feels that the community on campus could be stronger. "There's a responsibility among the students to have on some level an awareness and seek out a women's community," Walsh says...
...proof that the fortress of apartheid, which looks so monolithic to the outside world, is showing signs of cracks. It is also an indication that the once united Afrikaners, die volk, the white tribe, who number only 3 million of the country's nearly 35 million* inhabitants but grimly assert their claim to political power, stand united no longer...
Even though the artists of the time were eagerto assert their economic and ideologicalindependence from the academic establishment, thegoals and practices of the Itinerant movementattained wide acceptance. The creed of thismovement was a realism in which the artists soughtto capture their subjects as they found them innature, leaving the idealized forms of the Academybehind. The exhibition traces the development ofthis new art from its origins to its demise at thebeginning of the twentieth century...
...opinions expressed last week make clear the need for women to assert an independent voice in society. However, I found to my mortification that in writing to defend the concept of a concentration in Women's Studies I found it impossible not to sound as closed-minded and contrived as my colleague who sees Harvard becoming "a hotbed of passing fads and vulgar idols...