Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that first headline--"Chicago Firm Exonerated"--outraged a large segment of the Law School student body. The Bowman case had become a cause celebre there, the focus of a controversy unusual for the school. Throughout the winter and spring, angry students confronted the Law School administration and the Placement Committee, demanding it investigate Bowman's case and offer her some redress, either by banning the firm's recruiters from the campus or at least by severely chastising the firm. Finally, the administration was forced to go further than it ever has on such matters, calling in the outside investigator that...
...blame Hubbard alone for the class's decision to limit the enrollment to women. Her desire to allow students to determine the focus of the course, giving them a choice between an impersonal study of women and biology, and a course examining women's personal experiences in the sciences--a course effectively excluding men--was an effort to allow students to participate in shaping their education, and should not be criticized in itself. The problem lies in the decision by feminists in the group effectively force out the three male students who showed up at the first meeting by stating...
When Ruth Hubbard '45, professor of Biology, decided to give her Currier House seminar on women and Biology again this year, she probably didn't expect it to become the focus of a college-wide controversy. But when Dean Rosovsky announced last week that the University is investigating the course to determine whether its student selection process violates federal regulations barring discrimination on the basis of sex or race, the dimensions of the controversy became apparent...
...facts appear to be fairly straightforward: at the first meeting of the course, Hubbard asked the 12 students, including three men, whether they wanted to include personal perspectives on the course material (a decision that would eliminate males), or to keep the focus on more impersonal issues. After a two-hour discussion on what students wanted to get from the seminar--a discussion that all participants agreed last week was fair to everyone involved--the three men withdrew their applications to the course. During the class meeting, several women said they would not take the course if men were included...
...documentary which conveys in all its intensity the importance of union struggles for people who face the entire weight of a discriminatory and oppressive society arrayed against them, from mineowners to the goonish forces of law and order they control. But the unusual aspect of this film is its focus on women's participation in the strike: when the somewhat macho Chicano men are forbidden to picket by court order, the women go out on the line and win the strike...