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...order to defend their freedom to continue experimentation the recombinant DNA researchers have been willing to sacrifice the freedom of speech of their fellow scientists. Harvard junior faculty members jeopardized their careers if they objected to the tenured colleagues' research. Ursula Goodenough, associate professor of Biology, dropped out of the controversy, saying, "... I didn't want to lay my head on this particular block ... all of us were feeling very pressured...
...sparse and marginal especially compared to Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, which have full women's studies programs. Stokes thinks Harvard does not take the area seriously yet, adding that Harvard is often not as responsive generally to the desires of student as are some schools. Ursula Goodenough, assistant professor of Biology and chairman of the Faculty Standing Committee on Women, looks at it from the perspective of a faculty member. She told a Cambridge Forum audience that those with an interest in the field are junior faculty members. She contends that they are afraid of being thought frivolous...
Problems remain, even if one accepts women's studies as a valid area and recognizes its potential student support. Faculty interest seems limited. Goodenough says that all existing specialty committees have had strong individual faculty lobbying in support of them. For the previously mentioned reasons, that seems unlikely to happen for women's studies. Last year, the subcommittee that has grown into the current group sent letters to 800 faculty members asking for support. The response was negligible. The committee remains undaunted, and Stokes says, "The more faculty support the better, but if given a choice between faculty...
...separate department to be put aside and forgotten. Teachers might have a stronger position in a regular department." As an interim measure designed to integrate the material into general courses, she suggests that the committee prepare information packets for professors, who she thinks would be receptive to such attempts. Goodenough favors any efforts in the direction of establishing women's studies, but believes that the most practical way to go about it might be to work on getting many more courses into the current curriculum before creating a concentration...
...committee also plans to meet with groups of junior faculty and graduate students to supplement the questionnaires with personal opinions on both the positive and negative aspects of nontenured faculty standing at Harvard, Goodenough said...