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Panel discussion topics will be determined by individual moderators, but Avery said all panelists will share aspects of their lives and careers inextricably linked with gender...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Alumna Recall 25 Years With Harvard | 9/24/1997 | See Source »

...crusade on behalf of Harvard's oppressed women has reached comical heights. It has also clouded its reason. The staff trips over itself in its praise of Professor Gilligan while injecting only the mild qualifier that her work is "controversial." Her work is not merely controversial. It espouses a gender-based behavioral determinism that many women and men find offensive. While open scholarly exchange should never be obstructed, we need not go out of our way to laud the promotion of ideas which are divisive and damaging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gilligan, Chair Empty | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

Further, the establishment of a permanent chair in gender studies is undeserving of our endorsement, regardless of who fills it. Gender studies, and other fields that the staff deems "progressive," are politically motivated enterprises of questionable academic legitimacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gilligan, Chair Empty | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

Making the council more representative is not just another PC plan; a student government that represents the student body demographically will have a greater impact. Why is this the case? Shouldn't race or gender be irrelevant as long as the representatives have good intentions? I grant that good intentions go a long way toward making a difference, and I cheer loudly the white men who have fought to give a voice to women and people of color. I'm not talking to these men; I don't need to. I am talking to those of us in the student...

Author: By Lamelle D. rawlins, | Title: We Need You: Diversity on the U.C. | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

...some issues that came to the floor as a result of the efforts of under-represented groups: the council funded a rally supporting Faculty diversity and stood for the rights of lesbian and gay students to hold commitment ceremonies in Memorial Church. The Council encouraged the University to include "gender identity" and "mental illness" in its nondiscrimination clause. These issues, too, arose because of their relevance to the daily lives of council members. These are the kind of issues that hang in the balance between good intentions and the real thing. If this year's council truly reflects the diversity...

Author: By Lamelle D. rawlins, | Title: We Need You: Diversity on the U.C. | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

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