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Women's issues were unusually prominent in Harvard drama last semester. Several of the plays, like David Gammons's powerful SexGod and Jennifer Giering's uplifting A...My Name is Alice dealt expressly with feminism and other gender issues. Many more focused on broader concerns, or were less explicitly feminist, like Carl Fox's production of On the Verge or Beth Turner's production of Blue Window...
...influence of the women's movement on these plays showed clearly in one of the most outstanding productions of the semester, the double-billing of August Strindberg's The Stronger and Sybil Rosen's Curves. These short plays both dealt with the relationship of two women but were strikingly different...
Despite the many successes of the women's movement, many problems remain. Harvard drama dealt with this darker side extensively in another double billing, SexGod, two plays written by Robert Coover. The second of these, A Theological position, was a deeply disturbing presentation of sexuality and gender that many people saw as brutal and misogynist...
However, reform has been dealt a more serious setback by educators. The Chicago Principals' Association has attacked SRA's educational overhaul in court, in the LSCs and in the schools themselves. Fortunately, their legal challenge of the anti-tenure portions of the act was denied, but the association continues to oppose any substantive reform. It is appealing the ruling. And the Chicago Teachers' Union has supported the principals' challenge...
...remedy this unfortunate situation, the Presidents Commission did...uh...nothing. They did nothing to limit the influence of alumni support groups. They did nothing to prevent the megabucks earned by football programs from flowing directly back into football. As Harvard Assistant Athletic Director Andrea S. Wickerham said, "They dealt with the problem, but not with the cause...