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...accepted area, has always occupied a rather tenuous position here. There are few enough courses taught by women, much less focused on them, and the courses on women and feminism that are offered are nearly always oversubscribed. But the recent disclosure that a Currier House seminar taught by Ruth Hubbard '45, professor of Biology, decided not to admit males raises new questions, ones that could endanger any hope of establishing serious discussion of women's issues in all traditional disciplines...
When Ruth Hubbard '45, professor of Biology, decided to give her Currier House seminar on women and Biology again this year, she probably didn't expect it to become the focus of a college-wide controversy. But when Dean Rosovsky announced last week that the University is investigating the course to determine whether its student selection process violates federal regulations barring discrimination on the basis of sex or race, the dimensions of the controversy became apparent...
...facts appear to be fairly straightforward: at the first meeting of the course, Hubbard asked the 12 students, including three men, whether they wanted to include personal perspectives on the course material (a decision that would eliminate males), or to keep the focus on more impersonal issues. After a two-hour discussion on what students wanted to get from the seminar--a discussion that all participants agreed last week was fair to everyone involved--the three men withdrew their applications to the course. During the class meeting, several women said they would not take the course if men were included...
Following the men's decision to withdraw, Hubbard offered to help them with independent studies...
...course say they believe that only by limiting enrollment to women can the discussion rise above a general introductory level, if for no other reason than that few men at Harvard have strong backgrounds in feminist literature. They maintain that the two courses--the seminar and the independent studies Hubbard offered--could be separate but equal, fulfilling everyone's needs...