Word: hosken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike Eleanor Glueck, the women now employed by the University are no longer passively accepting unfair treatment. Women at Harvard filed at least two charges of sex discrimination with HEW this year: Franziska Hosken claimed she was unfairly denied consideration for a position at the Graduate School of Design, and a group of women law school students submitted a long list of charges including claims of discriminatory admissions and financial aid policies...
...Dean Kilbridge's statement reprinted in The Crimson, "Critics are skilled, professional architects and out of Hosken's league," is contrary to fact and may be libelous according to my lawyers. Wellknown architectural critics, for instance, Mumford, Gideon, Ada Louis Huxtable (N.Y. Times), Wolf von Eckhart (Washington Post) don't have architectural degrees and have never practiced architecture at all. But since Dean Kilbridge makes value judgments about critics' qualifications and architectural qualifications one must ask: as a nonarchitect and with not published work as a critic is he qualified to make any judgments of this kind...
...first began its investigation of the GSD in July 1971 after receiving a complaint from Franziska P. Hosken, a 1944 alumna of the School. Hosken contended that two applications to the GSD in 1970 and 1971 were ignored, although her qualifications made her eligible for several teaching positions...
Although the University is still negotiating the affirmative action plan with HEW--there is considerable disagreement over "goals and timetables"--HEW says the GSD inadvertantly established a written criteria when Kilbridge released a statement detailing the reasons Hosken wasn't hired. Robert Randolph, head of the HEW investigating team, said this week that HEW will use Kilbridge's letter as the GSD's temporary written criteria for hiring women...
...arrest of Hosken and the eight other protesters came after officials permitted ten welfare mothers to enter the Department of Public Welfare. As the women entered the building, the defendants, along with 70 chanting demonstrators, attempted to break through police lines and accompany them...