Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times as many Harvard employees as Harvard students to make an event newsworthy. The University community already has the Gazette to bury important events in its back pages. The Crimson is the only alternative for both workers and students, and should treat all of the community it serves with equal respect, particularly since the effort of Harvard's clerical and technical employees to gain their rights and dignity may very well be the story of years to come. Damon A. Silvers...
...this type of assistance to women finally became federal law with the passage of Title IX, which mandated equal opportunity for men and women in all aspects of collegiate life. At first, colleges were under the impression that equal opportunity meant only that the budget of the university had to be set so that men and women's sports programs would be of the same quality, says Joseph D. Bertagna '73, the executive director of the Harvard Varsity Club, which serves as a liaison between alumni and the college. Later, though, the courts ruled that it was not fair...
...kooky notions on the protest generation's agenda, from communal living to extolling "mind-expanding" drug use, have mercifully become memories. But women's liberation, minus its early stridency, has become the status quo. "We were the pioneers," says Reich, "to take seriously the notion that women are equal. That's the social change that's lasted." In TIME's poll of 30- to 40-year-olds, the legacy of the late '60s and '70s that earns the highest approval rating (82%) is simply "changes in the role of women...
Members of ABLE say that, while the University has made some accommodations, it has been slow to offer equal access to disabled students. According to an ABLE report, Harvard has not even followed through with its own plans to make all buildings handicapped-accessible...
...clear that no amount of stepped-up restructuring will solve all the needs of the disabled. The University's efforts, then, should be partly redirected to some significant, relatively inexpensive and currently overlooked ways of working toward equal education for disabled students in and out of the classroom...