Word: janet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like to hereby apologize to Janet Fjellman for my comment quoted in Saturday's Crimson. I trust those who read it will recognize the absurdity of my statement if taken literally and will understand it in the metaphorical sense that it was intended. John W. M. Whiting Professor of Social Anthropology
J.W.M. Whiting, professor of Social Anthropology, said that there will be three one-year appointments next year. "We did not think Janet's course was the most valuable thing to fight for with Dean Dunlop," Whiting said...
...students demanded that Janet Fjellman, who teaches Social Relations 1002, "Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective," be rehired for next year. B. Irven DeVore, professor of Anthropology, notified Fjellman in January that her one-year contract would not be renewed...
...take women seriously. Throughout its history, the University has treated women with callous neglect--as employees, as students and scholars, and as subjects for serious academic study. The Social Anthropology faculty was following a hallowed Harvard tradition, therefore, when it refused to renew the one-year teaching contract of Janet Fjellman, lecturer on Social Relations and a radical feminist. Fjellman's course, Social Relations 1002, "Women from a Cross-Cultural Perspective," is currently the only open-enrollment course on women's studies available to undergraduates. It will not be offered next year, for no one else is qualified to teach...
...Harvard's financial condition demands that it ignore women's studies. Like all bureaucracies, the University finds funds for those activities it considers important and discards the rest. We consider courses on women a vital part of the University's academic mission. As a start to fulfilling that mission, Janet Fjellman's course should be renewed and her course contract reinstated...