Word: kleine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government Department's recent decision to deny Ethel Klein her last three years of teaching here makes clear once again the University's disregard for the quality of undergraduate-level teaching, its hostility to faculty with progressive or feminist views, and its lack of understanding of the importance of Women's Studies and women professors at Harvard/Radcliffe. Past statements by University officials that a women's studies program can be developed here within the existing departmental framework appears especially fallacious in the face of yet another loss of a woman teaching about, among other things, women...
...Harvard Committee for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has adopted a properly moderate stance. Co-president Allegra Klein acknowledges that the best tactics for protecting animal rights aren't scare tactics. "If we took a radical stance we would have been rejected immediately," she says. So far the group has sent delegates to meetings of a standing committee on the use of animals in research here at the College, and it is waiting for approval to attend meetings of a committee on animals at the Medical School...
Montgomery would not comment on why Klein was not promoted but said that the criteria for advancement in the Government Department were "scholarship, teaching, and service--in that order...
Students also attributed the denial of Klein's promotion to her political beliefs. Young said that her quality of scholarship was not considered seriously by the Government Department in light of her "glaringly different" political stands...
...Klein's first book, which deals with the women's movement, will be published by Harvard University Press later this year Klein, who is lecturing in California, could not be reached for comment...