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...nights ago, Agassiz House was packed with seniors celebrating the closest thing Harvard has to a prom. A few of us feminist types enjoyed the irony that after four years of final club hegemony, senior males could only go the Soiree if they were asked by Radcliffe seniors...
...Black students business association that wished to set up a minority resume bank. A Vietnamese magazine received funding. And, as a Salient cover story pointed out last week, The Foundation also gave money to support HQ, a forum for bisexual, gay and lesbian issues, and The Rag, a feminist magazine...
...Harvard's only magazine dedicated to bisexual, gay and lesbian issues, I must respond to an article written in the February 15 issue of the Harvard Salient which criticizes the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations for its funding of HQ and The Rag, a radical feminist publication which, to be sure, has the right to speak for itself...
...MALTREATMENT OF WOMEN AS A MATTER OF cultural practice tantamount to political persecution? Yes, say opposition M.P.s and feminist groups demanding that Canada grant refugee status to victims of sex-based persecution. The debate ensnared Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt, who reversed a decision denying asylum to a Saudi woman who said she feared punishment for refusing to wear a veil if she returned home. Valcourt now promises new guidelines to encompass women whose governments fail to protect them from domestic violence or persecution. Women's rights advocates insist that Canada go further and become the first country to enshrine...
...were a combat medal. In Prime Suspect, last year's smashing PBS mini-series imported from Granada TV, Tennison struggled to prove her investigative mettle to male-chauvinist colleagues. That battle largely won, PRIME SUSPECT 2 (debuting Feb. 11 for four weeks) loses some of its feminist urgency. Here she investigates the murder of a black girl in a racially tense neighborhood and tries to keep her professional cool when a black detective, and former lover, is assigned to the case. A bit less than prime this time, but still choice fare...