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President Horner said last week that an assistant dean with the help of other college staff would replace the Forum staff which the budget cuts eliminate. She added that she envisioned no change in the Forum programs as a result of the staff cuts...
...possible to preserve the Forum in its present form and still keep the programs," Horner said yesterday, adding, "Dr. Reagor had suggested that the Forum was perhaps not the most viable structure for providing programs...
Maybe President Horner believes that not enough undergraduate women attend events to justify the Forum's budget. It is well known that college-aged women are likely to be much less interested in feminism than their older sisters. The educational process through the A.B. level favors the attributes which women are socialized to value: following instructions, being organized, meeting deadlines, etc. The most common belief of college women about sexism is that it exists, but if "I'm good enough, it won't affect me." It is only after women enter the work force or graduate school that sexism...
However, what undergraduate women may not have realized, and must tell President Horner before it is too late, is that the existence of the Radcliffe Forum, as an institutional sponsor of the most excellent programs for women I have ever heard of validates the study of issues concerning women here at Harvard. The programs which bring so many excellent women here provide the knowledge and interest which causes spillovers into curricula, teacher attitudes, and pushes for change which Harvard needs. The chance to think about and discuss alternate approachs to current intellectual and social issues allows women the opportunity...
...hope undergraduate women will quickly organize to articulate the direct benefits the Radcliffe Forum gives them and to convince President Horner that the Forum's services are necessary, representing the essence of the goal to provide women an excellent and equal education. I hope, too, that President Horner will reevaluate her decision in light of the myriad of indirect benefits the Forum gives to undergraduate women through its services for graduate women. Cynthia J. Dahlin Kennedy School of Government