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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more significant factor affecting Ethos' decision not to act was the response it anticipated from the rest of the campus. "The majority of kids would be turned off by harping on the October 7 meeting," explained Karen Williamson '69, past president of Ethos. "From experience we know we can't get a concerted effort with white students. We met resistance last year; even the upperclassmen don't want to change what Wellesley means. I have a feeling that the mass of Wellesley students would be against...
...chaplain called to his office girls who represented some of the more important campus organizations and other students who were known to be dissatisfied with life and education at Wellesley. That gathering signified the first time that the isolated voices of dissent on the campus were brought together. Out of the meeting came a list of proposals for reform of the college and an organization, the Committee on Wellesley Indifference (COWI), to work for the acceptance of the reform...
...hand, the leaders of COWI cannot assert that they have altered Wellesley if change, in its most obvious form, is persistently resisted. Black students' demands to see themselves integrated into all aspects of life at Wellesley must be a part of any resolution calling for significant change on the campus...
...COWI and Ethos question the administration's commitment to reformation of the college. Initiative for change has always come from students and has usually succeeded only under student pressure. Ethos' adoption of a wait-and-see attitude after the October 7 meeting marked the end of militancy on the campus, at least for the foreseeable future. The only pressure compelling the administration to act is the interest in the COWI proposals which have developed among students...
Your Tuesday editorial "No More Bricks" exhibits the most unbelievable shortsightness. Your claim is that Radcliffe should spend no more money on new dormitories because students today demand off-campus housing. This is merely a thinly cloaked desire to drive away many low income families from the Cambridge area since cartels of Harvard and Radcliffe students are willing to pay exorbitant rents that no working family man can afford. On the contrary, Radcliffe should continue its dormitory building program, and should require that students live on campus...