Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort. In fact, City Year was officially launched in late April at a spring benefit thrown by the Voluntary Fundraisers Association (VFA). VFA, which was founded by a group of young management consultants, teamed up with City Year to target more than 1000 people by mail, inviting them to attend a dance benefit or to contribute by mail...
Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner announced the award of the prize to Maisy M. Chan '88, who could not attend the ceremony because she is working for the summer in a steel factory in Germany. Chan, who immigrated to America 10 years ago from China, has also been involved in the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program. For her academic achievement, Chan was named a Phi Beta Kappa member and received a Mellon Fellowship for graduate study in philosophy...
Leftist politics have pervaded the co-op's history. A letter from an alumnus unable to attend the reunion recalled that members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) were constantly trying to recruit co-op residents. John Crooks, master during the early '70s, said he had visited the co-op on the day of Walt Disney's death and found a celebration. Co-op residents explained that Disney had been a fascist. Today, practically every room has its own copy of the Village Voice...
Once students of the 1980's arrive on campus the separation is barely evident. Gone are the days when women were barred from Widener and forced to sit in the hall in order to audit all-male courses. Today men and women live together, attend classes together, and participate together in the same extracurriculars...
...students today, Radcliffe is simply one of many different extracurricular activities for undergraduates. Only six students regularly attend meetings of the student organization that is supposed to represent all 2500 women undergraduates, the Radcliffe Union of Students Probably the biggest explanation for why Radcliffe activities draw so few participants is that women get here because of their involvement in a myriad of other activities. Once here, women don't want to be boxed into a sector all of their...