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This is not to say that all prizes must be stripped of their original character. Since it will be awarded by the Institute, the Fay Prize could reflect the Institute's mission to contribute to the study of women, gender and society by honoring an undergraduate, male or female, who has shown superior scholarship in this area. University administrators have already hinted that the criteria for the prize may come to emphasize scholarship over the additional elements of conduct and character...
...Fay Should Reflect Radcliffe's Past...
...much instant credibility? The Crimson staff falls victim to the mentality that anything that appears to give women an extra advantage must be sexist. However, as the staff admits, there is a dramatic imbalance between prizes open to men and women. The amount of inequality embodied in the Fay Prize simply doesn't measure up to the multitude of male-only prizes...
There is also the fact that the Fay Prize, more than any of the Radcliffe prizes which have been given over to the College, is representative of Radcliffe's past. The Fay Prize is a living reminder that Radcliffe was a women's college throughout most of its history. By continuing to award the Fay Prize to a female undergraduate, the Institute remains contact with its past through students of the present. Because of this tradition, as well as the fact that the prize will be awarded by an Institute with a mission for women...
...very least, this justification for the Fay Prize's single-sex status is no more tenuous than the justification for maintaining the Frothingham's prize criteria of "manliness." In fact, by targeting the Fay Prize before deciding to reconsider the Frothingham, the administration revealed an intent colored more by institutional rivalry than gender equality. The Crimson staff's intent, to eliminate sexism everywhere, is more noble, but in this case is clearly misguided...