Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every kind of drug. And it is moving so fast that it is different this year from last year." The traditional barriers between much of society and the users of such hard drugs as heroin, cocaine and morphine are collapsing. "Heroin has become respectable," says Mrs. Harriet Benjamin, a worker at Synanon in Santa Monica, Calif. "The image of the dirty old man in the schoolyard is dead." Ten years ago, middle-class high school kids looked down on heroin users; now it has shed the fear and the lower-class taint. Heroin users are no longer an exclusive club...
...time that "Harvard University, as one of the most prestigious universities in the country, shows some long overdue leadership in the field of equal rights for women," said Roberta Benjamin '62, the forum's moderator...
...forum speeches and subsequent dis-cussion will be open to men as well as women. Mrs. Benjamin said that NOW feels that "men are as hindered by strictly defined roles on the basis of sex as women...
This meeting will deal only with ?? aspects of discrimination against women. Mrs. Benjamin said that inequalities ?? and job categories will probably be the subject of a forum later this spring on Harvard as an employer...
Members of NOW hope that the forum will increase Harvard student awareness of discrimination against women, Mrs. Benjamin said. Some Cliffies and female graduate students are already working with NOW or with other women's groups she said...