Word: internments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eager Radcliffe is to involve itself in a direct 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...
...constant retrain running through discussions of Radcliffe offerings is the dearth of publicity they receive and the relatively low level of use they therefore enjoy from Radcliffe under graduates. Radcliffe "assumes a base level of awareness that most people don't have," says Yvonne L. Jones '85 a Radcliffe intern. While the Schlesinger library houses a nationally eminent collection on women's history, library director Patricia King admits that "it's hard to acquaint undergraduates with the factn that it exists." Ann Co1by, director of the Murrey Center says that while some undergraduates regularly use the facility most undergraduates "Just...
...intern-friend scanned the menu--a decaying chalk-board with a few scrawlings on it--and finally asked for a Tab and a tuna-fish sandwich. The counterman produced an old can of tuna from the back of a shelf under the grill and spilled some Pepsi into a highball glass...
...lowly intern who spent most of the summer writing about developed' verbal and mathematical abilities and the Standard Error of Measurement, I soon stopped trying to explain that I wasn't anywhere near the tests, and that I didn't work for ETS at all. "You see, the College Board, which is in New York, owns the tests, and it has a contract with the guys in Princeton, who own the questions on the tests...
...rather whimsical, and unsolicited, job application had run sort of perpendicular to the Board's vague inquiries as to whether anyone knew anyone who'd like to be an intern. I wasn't related to anybody in particular, and no one's guidance counselor had any prior reports on me. All these qualities made me the ideal conveyer of the collective "student viewpoint" on anything they happened to ask me about...