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FIRST-TIME VISITORS to the Lyman Common Room Center for Women (LCR), frequently remark with surprise that they had not known about Harvard's Women's Center...
...LCR staffers are usually quick to respond, "Oh, no this isn't a Women's Center. This is the Lyman Common Room [Center for Women]. Harvard doesn't have a Women's Center...
Largely in response to these demands, new Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson last spring announced the opening of the Lyman Common Room. The LCR has since been much like any other common room--an administratively controlled space which people can reserve for meetings or use for studying or "hanging out." Because it is a "Center for Women," the groups which meet there are supposed to have some relationship to gender concerns, but that is by no means a hard-and-fast rule...
Wilson sees the LCR as at least the first step towards her vision of an inclusive Center for Women. As such, she and other Radcliffe deans have planned to run some programming on gender issues out of the LCR, although they have not publicly articulated many specific goals...
Steven Drury, piano--Adams House LCR, Harvard...