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Horner said the winning slogan carries a "message with dignity." "I think it's a little obscure but it's cute," Susan Comstock '78, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, said yesterday. "It's not very inspiring," she added...
...Comstock feels a women's studies department should be created since it would have more political weight than the existing Committee on Women's Studies. However, forum director Reagor feels "a lot would be lost by having a separate women's studies department." Instead of concentrating all attention to women in a single department, Reagor says all fields should be taught with an emphasison women. When studying the history of a period in which women apparently made no contributions, scholars should ask, "How was the thinking of that time affected by the fact that women were excluded?" Reagan says...
President Comstock finds the approach of Radcliffe administrators a difficult one with which to work. "Everything is sort of off the record. It makes it harder for students to have input, but it is also the reason administrators give for not making a fuss," she says...
According to the 1977 agreement, "Undergraduates admitted to and subsequently enrolled in Radcliffe will thereby be enrolled, in accordance with present practice, in Harvard College with all the rights and privileges accorded Harvard College enrollment." Therefore, Comstock feels, women should get the same financial aid and work-study opportunities...
...they do not. Proportionately fewer work-study jobs are open to women than to men. "Work-study is a very important part of financial aid," Comstock says, since it enables women to have research jobs, rather than more traditional housekeeping or secretarial jobs which they are forced to take if work-study is not available...