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...help and referral. There were 20 people hired to staff the room, two of which were men," Volpp says. "This could create problems for women who want to discuss issues of sexual harassment. We want a professionally staffed center, multiple meeting and office spaces, and programming money. Although Lyman serves an important function, we haven't really gotten what we want...
Women's center advocates stress Harvard's failed responsibility to female faculty, staff and students as a primary reason why Lyman does not address the need for a women's center. "Harvard is not contributing any money to the Lyman Common Room," Blais says. "Aside from the issue of finances and space, we would be effectively releasing Harvard of its responsibility toward women if we accepted the Lyman Common Room as the answer to our demands for a women's center...
Shinagel interprets widespread support for the Lyman Common Room as an indication of the need for a women's center. "Lyman is not in competition with a future women's center," Shinagel explains. "Even if a sugar mommy gave us a building to use for the center, both places could function...
Frustration with Harvard's slow response to demands for a women's center, as well as with the confusion surrounding the Lyman Common Room, has led students to form the Women's Center. Resource Group (WCRG). "A women's center has been a hazy longterm possibility for too long," WCRG member Naomi Hamburg says. "Action has to be taken now. We can't sit around and expect a center to just appear in five years...
Last September, WCRG members presented a memo to President Wilson asking Radcliffe not to define the Lyman Common Room as a response to the proposal of last spring. The memo also expresses the inappropriateness of Radcliffe taking the full lead in the establishment of a women's center...