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...State of Washington pays Helen Castrilli, a secretary at its largest mental hospital, $1,300 a month. But studies conducted by a consulting firm hired by the state calculated that her work is "worth" the same as the work of those in different jobs making $350 a month more. When Castrilli and eight other workers sued, claiming sex discrimination, a federal-court judge in Tacoma decided in their favor. That ruling is now being appealed by state officials, with the Reagan Administration considering joining in the case against Castrilli and her coworkers. The dispute is the latest battle over...
...after defenseless members of an unpopular group, with whom most students (including the signers of this letter) have major political differences. The administration does not go after members of any of the larger, more popular student organizations involved in the protest, nor the unaffiliated students who formed the largest part of the protesters. We hope that not only the signers of this letter, but also a diverse range of campus opinion will condemn this blatant selective victimization. Debra M. Satz teaching asst., Social Studies Joseph Schwartz, teaching fellow, Government and Social Studies Carlos Forment, teaching fellow, Social Studies David...
...second largest collection of rare books at Harvard University resides in the Francis. A Countway Library of Medicine at the Medical School...
Andover-Harvard Theological Library, in the Divinity School features the work of some of the greatest Protestant theologians. The Rare Book Room concentrates on early New England theology, early Dutch theology and its related literature, and the world's largest selection of Unitarian Universalist materials, says curator Maria Grossman. For such a small library, the Rare Book Room has an impressive array of manuscript featuring the published and unpublished works of theologian Paul Tillich and literature reflecting the continental pietism during the 17th and 18th centuries within the German Lutheran Church. Most of the rare books are unavailable for undergraduate...
...Yenching Library offers Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and South Vietnamese literature ad infinitum. It houses the world's largest aggregation of Buddhists scriptures, assembled by Tibetan and Mongolian monks. The curator of the Yenching rare books collection, Sydney Tai, says he would be willing to show visitors treasures as old as the 7th century Sung Dynasty or as capacious as a 10,000 volume rare encyclopedia of Chinese history. This collection owns certain artifacts that even the people of China do not possess, according to Tai. There's only one hitch: almost all the scrolls and manuscripts are printed in Asian...