Word: diploma
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Alice says she has a high school diploma, but declares that she has no skills and cannot find any sort...
...diploma is simply a symbolic gesture that represents to the outside world the experience we have had. Female undergraduates are enrolled in Harvard College, and must be recognized as such by the addition of the Dean of the College's signature on their diplomas...
...educations of men and women at Harvard are equal and their diplomas should be as well. Despite Radcliffe's very real role in the lives of some students on campus, it does not have a place on the diploma, the piece of paper certifying the education received by men and women. Dean Lewis's signature should appear on all undergraduate diplomas. The signature of Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson should not appear on any of them...
...last Sunday's Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council meeting, a bill was proposed to encourage the Harvard College Administration to give all undergraduates the same baccalaureate diplomas. Because it did not outline what this would mean, the resolution allowed the possibility that Radcliffe would be removed from women's diplomas. While I support the idea of uniform diplomas I could not endorse a proposal that failed to specifically ensure the ongoing recognition of Radcliffe College on diplomas. By not suggesting how the diploma should look, the bill's sponsors ignored the vital importance and meaning of Radcliffe...
...that said, the future of our bill's proposed diploma reform is now in the hands of Dean Harry R. Lewis '68. In presenting the original bill to the council, its sponsors emphasized the support Dean Lewis had expressed for it. In fact, some mentioned they had actually developed this bill through careful collaboration with him and the Harvard Administration, and he had promised to become an advocate for their bill upon its passage. Although the initial sponsors refused to endorse the new bill, we hope that Dean Lewis will demonstrate his commitment to women and to equal recognition...