Word: gendered
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...very fertile, very exciting, very energetic time,” says Colantuono, who was secretary of the Gay Students Association (GSA) during the 1980-81 school year. This April, Harvard announced that it would amend its University-wide non-discrimination policy to protect “gender identity,” responding to student activism for transgender rights. At Commencement 25 years ago, the Class of 1981 marshals distributed letters to graduates pleading with them to withhold donations to the College until the Faculty of Arts and Sciences reversed its refusal to adopt a policy of nondiscrimination toward gay students...
...midst of the overt politicking, the UC managed a number of advocacy successes this spring. Their efforts to make Harvard maintenance workers wear identification badges while on the job were welcome, and their campaign to give Harvard students a more free choice of roommates by eliminating restrictions on mixed gender rooming will improve the quality of life of those students uncomfortable with mandated single-sex housing. Additionally, the UC advocated reduced textbook costs for students on financial aid and encouraged the College to coordinate online resources to bring coursepack costs under control. The year ended with a final display...
...teacher, and spends a great deal of time working with her students. She raises excellent questions,” Vogel says of his former student, teaching fellow, and colleague.REASONS FOR REJECTIONDespite these considerable qualifications, those professors who voted against Skocpol for tenure contended then and still contend that her gender had nothing to do with her rejection.“It is absolutely the truth that the department was leaning over backwards and really gave her considerable advantage because she’s a woman,” emeritus Andelot professor of sociology Nathan Keyfitz said then.Alessandro Pizzorno, former Sociology...
...Review were women, although Susan R. Estrich, the law professor and Democratic political operative, served as the Review’s president in 1977. It was then that the saga of the Law Review’s affirmative action program began, when the editors adopted a race- and gender-conscious policy by a 45 to 39 vote, to the vehement opposition of some faculty members. Several months of intense debate and negotiations ensued between the Review and the faculty, at the end of which the Review began for the first time considering factors other than merit in choosing its members.AN...
...Christianity and Islam in nations along the Tenth Parallel. International fellows researching the Middle East include Finnish editor Patsy Nakell, who will study the early 20th century history of American policy in the region, and Anja Niedringhaus, an Associated Press photographer from Germany, who will study culture, history, and gender issues in the Middle East. Other fellows will focus on American immigration issues, such as Gina Acosta from The Washington Post, who will study the fiscal results of U.S. immigration policy, and Claudio Sanchez, national education correspondent for National Public Radio, who will investigate why educational policies fail to equip...