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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really level with Protestants. Bigotry began with the great Inquisition of a few centuries ago, during which Christians who didn't believe what the Popes ordained were killed. Personally I think John Paul is the first real Bible-believing Pope. He didn't say anything that Dwight L. Moody and Billy Graham have not been saying for years. Hooray...
...social structure throughout the '60s remained rigid, with few informal activities allowing men and women to interact, Nancy L. Rosenblum '69 says. Men asked women out on dates, and it was a stigma not to go out on a Saturday night. Radcliffe dorms served milk and cookies on Saturdays for the unlucky--thus advertising the shame, Rosenblum notes. A woman's social life was a matter of public record in the dorms, since all calls went through the bell's desk and interested residents constantly leafed through the sign-out ledger...
...federal arena, however, the colleges' relationship is less clear cut. "I guess I represent only Harvard," says Parker L. Coddington, who as Harvard's director of government relations conducts a high proportion of the University's lobbying in Washington. While Coddington says that he has represented Radcliffe on some issues, particularly pertaining to federal student aid programs, there is no set pattern...
...some Washington lobbyists sharply disagree, saying that women's colleges--mostly small four-year institutions on the eastern seaboard--are getting trampled on. "The federal run of things is complicated enough so that specific interests are being lost," says Donna L. Shavlik, associate director of the Office of Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Education. Marcia K. Sharp '68, director of the Women's College Coalition, a Washington-based amalgam of 67 single-sex institutions, agrees with Shavlik's assessment. The coalition, says Sharp, needs "to spearhead a better understanding of what the positive elements" of women...
Committee members also recognized another potential problem that never arose--displacement of staff when the committees merged. Alberta Arthurs, the former dean of Radcliffe admissions and currently president of Chathan College in Pittsburgh. willingly transferred to the newly created position of dean of undergraduate affairs. L. Fred Jewett '57, former dean of Harvard admissions, became dean of the combined office...