Word: lamonte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unbeknownst to most students, there is battle going on in the basement of Lamont Library. It's a battle between good intentions and immaturity. There, on a wall near the Xerox machines there is a posterboard that asks passers-by to put down their thoughts on disabled persons. Specifically, "what are common misperceptions about disabled people...
...this is just asking for trouble, Anyone who's seen the inane guest commentaries written on desks at Lamont will know that giving students such a forum will only play to their sophomoric instincts. Who knows what students wearied by hours of sticking their noses in books will unleash given such an opportunity...
...ignorantly states that "Radcliffe was the college that let women remain second-class citizens on this campus for decades," listing such restrictions as those barring women from using Lamont Library and eating in the Harvard dining halls. Any thinking person would realize that these were not rules set by Radcliffes, Harvard controlled its own dining halls and libraries, and they chose to exlude Radcliffe women...
...book classification, like "Geography" or "History," I have a radical new proposal. If it strikes you as strange, if you put down this newspaper in disgust, I ask only that you read it again after you've trekked to the Harvard Book Store or the New Book shelf at Lamont Library...
...depiction of Radcliffe's history had better not be too vivid, however, or it might not play in the '90s. Radcliffe was the college that let women remain second-class citizens on this campus for decades. Through the 1960s, Radcliffe women weren't allowed in Lamont Library, were forced to wear skirts to class and couldn't go into dining halls--unless, of course, they were somebody's date...