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...women's groups which have taken different positions on the status of the Harvard's all-male final clubs met last night to air their views during an open forum at the Lyman Common Room...
...been 20 years. It was a male-dominated university for a long time," Choubey says. "In terms of opportunity [things] are pretty equal. The Lyman Common Room was an important step towards that. Services like a SafetyWalk seems to be something we had a need for. In general it's a pretty open atmosphere. A lot of these things take time...
Baliga says she will compile a database of legal, counseling, and community services similar to the Women's Information Service Hotline (WISH) run out of Rad- cliffe's Lyman Common Room. She will translate the information into Hindi and disseminate it through universities and South Asian organizations, temples and mosques...
...multicultural center would also ideally have space to hold lectures, seminars and discussion groups as well as more socially-oriented parties, dances and study breaks. A library that focused on issues of ethnicity could be part of a drop-in resource room similar to that in the Lyman Common Room. One room could be set aside as a conference room, for use by groups outside as well as inside the center...
Furthermore, few complain that the Hillel Center prevents Jews from mingling with Gentiles or that the Lyman Common Room excludes males. And the reason is that far from promoting separatism, both organizations (and others similar) are resources for the entire University, not just their specific constituencies of Harvard students. A minority student center would not only have the potential to specifically serve the roughly one-third of undergraduates who identify themselves with a minority group, but also every Harvard student interested in issues of ethnicity or just in coming to a dance...