Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt the March 8 letter was written in bad faith, inhumanity and blindness. There has to be a solution to the fellowship finance problem (and the March 8 letter is no solution!) but it must be found together by students, faculty and administration, with full budget disclosure, good faith, and VISION. Obviously, long range goals must be explicit. So far, it seems that faculty members are supportive of the students' rejection of the March 8 "plan"; therefore we must remember the lesson of '69--that "demands" and confrontation will inevitably alienate many faculty members! Let's NOT get caught...
...early 1950s, the Burbidges decided to go to the U.S., where the skies were much better for stargazing than in cloudy Britain. He won a fellowship at Harvard, and she a grant to work at the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis. The result: they had to postpone joint housekeeping...
...Burbidge received a Carnegie fellowship in astronomy at Mount Wilson Observatory, but since these awards were not then available to women, Mrs. Burbidge had to take a job as a researcher at nearby Caltech. There was also a more serious problem. As a woman, Mrs. Burbidge found that she could get precious observing time at Mount Wilson Observatory only if her husband applied for it and she pretended to act as his assistant. Recalls Mrs. Burbidge: "It was my first exposure to the discouragement women scientists encounter...
...administrator admits that he is still startled to see a student wearing a bikini in the gymnasium elevator. A dean says that he enjoys getting notes from girls more than he does from boys because they are signed "Love." One senior professor, who laments the loss of "male fellowship," is still bluntly prejudiced. "Women may make a fractional contribution to an undergraduate lecture," he concedes. "They don't yawn as much...
...Rhodes Fellowship for Women--established within the past two years--is for graduate students, whereas the Rhodes Scholarship is for undergraduate seniors...