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Although President Horner sits on several curricular committees of Harvard College. Radcliffe is in the awkward position of having to offer its students the education that Harvard College chooses to provide. Radcliffe does not have an undergraduate concentration in women's studies, for example, or indeed many courses in women's studies at all, simply because Harvard does not How active a force Radcliffe is in pushing for a greater role for women's studies in undergraduate courses is a subject of some debate...
FORMAL PRESSURE for more women's studies is "not an appropriate thing" for Radcliffe to be doing, says Phillipa Bovet, associate dean of Radcliffe. President Horner speaks of using "the carrot," rather than the stick in working for more women's studies. She notes for example, that Radcliffe requires Harvard faculty members who apply for a Mellon Fellowship to present evidence of curricular innovation toward more women's studies in their courses. But Radcliffe has not vocally called for a women's studies concentration, not has it encouraged Radcliffe students who have applied for special concentrations in women's studies...
...advocacy role is a subject of some contention, "My gut feeling is that yes they should play an advocacy role," says House Intern Helene Sahadi York '83. "I'm not sure whose responsibility it should be, but I don't see much of it happening." While she praises President Horner's access sability she does not see anyone at Radcliffe as being the forceful advocate on women's issues that they might "Issues of importance to women tend to be political footballs," she says." Radcliffe is just another bureaucracy to throw it around...
...Radcliffe's primary intention to get people to sign up as loyal instant Radcliffe women," says Mary Cox, vice president for development. "We don't care if they have a Radcliffe banner in their room or not "President Horner also says that Radcliffe is not concerned about what level of allegiance women undergraduates show toward Radcliffe. "I care why women say they go to Harvard," she says. "It's like immigrants who change their names. I care if they are denying a part of themselves...
...great local respect for its frequent exposures of public officials. The paper has delved into land, taxes and other issues of concern in the county, as well as publicizing many scandals, which residents are afraid to mention themselves. "It wasn't hard for me to catch [these local officials]," Horner Marcum, editor of the Countian says. "People just wanted their names kept out of it. If someone was willing to go after [the officials], they'd call...