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LAST WEEK, Harvard's fourth annual Women's History Week drew substantial attendance and enthusiasm, as it has in the past. But the crowds who flocked to hear Nancy Cott speak on feminist theory only reemphasized the rarity of such an event on campus. The fact remains that the University still has virtually no means of accommodating students who want to study women's history or any other aspect of "women's studies." Such a program is long overdue at Harvard; its absence is a gap that must be filled...
...furiously original vision. Gould died of a stroke in 1982 at age 50, but he remains a challenging figure. Now two new books tap the mind behind the fingers. In Conversations with Glenn Gould (Little, Brown, $15.95), based largely on a 1974 two-part interview in Rolling Stone, Jonathan Cott elicits from the reclusive Canadian his views on teaching ("Given half an hour of your time and your spirit and a quiet room, I could teach any of you how to play the piano"), composers ("I really don't like Mozart") and pop music ("At her best, Barbra Streisand...
...authorities announced that Lis was captured with several incriminating documents, including a letter from a Solidarity leader in Brussels indicating that the AFL-CIO, the giant U.S. labor organization, had contributed $200,000 to the under ground and suggesting that more money might be forthcoming if the election boy cott was successful. Lis was charged with failing to end his role in Solidarity when the trade union was suspended, founding an illegal organization, entering into agreements with foreign organizations and using false identity documents...
Even before the program evolved. Yale had a tradition of respecting women's studies. Students regularly applied for, and were granted, "special distributional majors" in women's studies. Cott says, adding that about a dozen students had received such special concentrations in women's studies before the creation of the major. "I don't recall any student who designed a major around women's studies and failed...
...women's studies," she says. Other than better recruitment of new faculty. Kates says a possible "second avenue" is to allow current faculty special time to study women's studies issues in the hope that they will integrate some of their learning into their courses. But even if what Cott calls a "critical mass" of women's studies scholars were to develop. Kates does not necessarily see the committee ever becoming a department or a degree-granting committee. "The committee's main goal really is to integrate. Scholarship on women should be represented in all courses...