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...Radcliffe Women's Action Coalition (RADWAC), a task force under the auspices of the Radcliffe Union of Students, put up posters which parodied the clubs with such phrases as "Swat the Fly" and "Support Your Local Bastion of Classist Patriarchal Elitism...
Susan S. Lyman '49 is the former chair of Radcliffe's Board of Trustees and former acting dean of the Bunting Institute, the College's multidisciplinary center of advanced studies for women. She says Knowles' letter shows that Harvard is "still a bastion of male superiority...
...undergraduate front, there have also been promising signs that the reputations of the clubs are souring. The Radcliffe Women's Action Coalition (RADWAC), a task force of the Radcliffe Union of Students, conducted a postering campaign against the clubs over Junior Parents Weekend in March. "Support Your Local Bastion of Classist Patriarchal Elitism--Go to a Final Club Party," read one apt sign...
Imagine the unease the typical final club member must have felt, sauntering through the yard with mom and dad during Junior Parents Weekend, only to come upon signs reading, "Support Your Local Bastion of Classist Patriarchal Elitism--Go to a Final Club Party...
Surprisingly little of what went on during meetings of the Overlap Group ever made it into the press, but documents generated by the federal investigation challenge the popular view of academe as a bastion of high-minded collegiality. At regular intervals, financial-aid officers met to compare the aid packages each planned to offer individual students. When variances arose, the group agreed to split the difference. In one case, M.I.T.'s assistant aid director found himself compelled to increase a family's contribution more than 30%. Next to the student's name, he wrote, "Don't like it, but..." then...