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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the LCR is not a multiroom facility, many of the proposed Women's Center functions could effectively be run from the single room. For example, the LCR could house a library of gender-related reading and films. LCR staff have already started developing a database of local women's resources that could serve as the foundation for a referral service. A coalition of women in extracurricular activities could be run through the LCR as a means for developing more connections between undergraduate women. Informal seminars and other meetings could be run out of the LCR to provide faculty, students...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Let's Meet Half-Way | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

None of these services actually requires a separate, multi-room facility. If the demand for programming in the future is higher than the LCR can meet, at that point a multi-room Women's Center will be a demand the administration can less easily ignore. If it turns out that support for the kind of programming that would be run out of a Women's Center is very low, it is better to discover that now than after investing valuable time and money...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Let's Meet Half-Way | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...STANDS right now, students willing to make this kind of compromise are met by a patronising Radcliffe administration unwilling to meet them halfway. Since the creation of the LCR, it has been run by administrative fiat, with absolute resistance to giving students a part in the actual running of the room...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Let's Meet Half-Way | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

Although Wilson last spring created an LCR Task Force that included students, it has barely met. No decisions relevant to the room have been debated in Task Force meetings. The room was designed, decorated, budgeted and staffed without any student input...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Let's Meet Half-Way | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...when students ask for increased involvement in the LCR, the Radcliffe administration responds that all student groups should feel absolutely free to use the room whenever they like. The issue of student input in actual decision making is side-stepped completely...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Let's Meet Half-Way | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

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