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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...
...Klein's non-renewal, moreover, has occurred within a department whose chairman claims it has one of the best records of affirmative action for women; if this is true, then it is a sad statement about the rest of the College, for the Government Department currently has one tenured woman professor...
...issue raised by the Government Department's decision is much greater than Klein's case alone. What must be addressed is not the possibly politically biased or sexist motivation behind the current decision, but the implications this move has for women and the study of women at the college in general. Ethel Klein is only the most recent un-promoted or un-tenured woman in a long--and distinguished--line of scholars who we feel have been refused a place on the faculty due to their sex, their feminism, and their concern for Women's Studies. A few facts illuminate...
...Ethel Klein's situation is not a new one, but that does not lessen our anger and dismay. The University is creating a dangerously self-perpetuating situation, as its refusal to grant scholarship of and by women the respect it deserves makes it increasingly unattractive for people in Women's Studies and female scholars to come here. The development of Women's Studies in the world at large will continue with or without Harvard's approval, and it will be more than a little distressing if the University succeeds in completely cutting itself off from this new field...
...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...