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...foremost women's colleges in America. Its students could share academic life with male and female Harvard undergraduates. The "separate" existence of each college would be mutually beneficial for both. Radcliffe could reclaim its autonomy and irreplaceable character, once again becoming a place of power, pride and strength, a bastion for women's studies and a wonderful place to attend or visit...
Excluding a few bright lights of free thought in Western history, the racial and gender exclusivity of European societies has been guarded for centuries behind a bastion of "moral" reasoning. One need only look at our notion of miscegenation, for example, to see how such concepts as racial intermarriage were considered radically immoral aberrations of depraved individuals, or, for a more proximate example, the hate-laced editorials in the very pages of the Harvard Crimson against the granting of lending privileges to Radcliffe students wishing to use Lamont Library just a few decades...
...This school has been a male bastion. We need to have women in leadership positions," Gaard says. "This is a training ground for the real world...
Several months ago, a squirrel created a moment of campus unity outside Widener Library, that bastion of cold impersonality. As I walked by, I noticed a large, and perhaps more noticeable, extremely diverse group of people all standing completely still, their attention fixed on something I could not see. As I drew closer, the situation became clear. A dog and a squirrel were locked in a mortal struggle...
Harvard, as a bastion of learning, must producestudents who can think critically about thecultures surrounding them, said Professor ofGovernment Michael J. Sandel, who also sat on thepanel...