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...vicious cycle is at work: traditional departments like History and Biology seem to be waiting to take their cue from a central program before creating more gender-related courses. At the same time, the Women's Studies Committee cannot attract top scholars without proving that the University is serious about the discipline...
...Harvard itself now guilty? Sadly yes. Students were asked their opinions in course evaluations last spring, and the CUE Guide staff, working with Harvard's blessing, eagerly gathered results...
...Harvard officials responsible for altering this year's CUE Guide should be embarrassed and ashamed. Besides Whitla, the cast of culprits includes A. Michael Spence, who as dean of the Faculty has final authority over its programs and products, and Stephen E. Ozment, associate dean for undergraduate education and the man with direct responsibility for the book...
...matter who among them ordered the editorial changes, all three officials--and perhaps others--were aware of the alterations, failed to prevent them, and therefore share responsibility for making the book a sham. This year's CUE Guide is less valuable because it is less credible and less credible because it is less accurate...
...future CUE Guides are truly to reflect student opinion, then the books must be run with minimal official interference. Anything more--in particular scare tactics which amount to censorship--defeats the Guide's purpose. But if administrators again want to hide Harvard from its own shadow, cancellation seems the only realistic alternative. It would certainly be the only honest...