Word: mclellan
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...underestimate Radcliffe's contribution to the academic sphere either. The existence of a separate institution such as Radcliffe helps validate and give credibility to studies of what are seen as "women's issues." The commentary by Douglas V. McLellan '94 Feb. 2, 1994 in The Independent is an example of the thinly veiled sexist arguments used to belittle Women's Studies as a less "serious, respectable, challenging" concentration. How deplorable it is that a physics concentrator should fashion the over-facile equation "Many magnas and summas awarded in Women's Studies=Women's Studies is an easy concentration." Since McLellan...
...existence of Radcliffe as a center devoted to women researchers and research on women should help people like McLellan realize that students might pick a concentration not only because of the importance of the field, but because they feel an identification with what they study...
...scientists, Radcliffe helps female undergraduates see that the sciences are not a "masculine" field where women need to "think like men" to excel. And it also shows that it is just as much of an achievement to excel in the study of music or literature--two of the fields McLellan ridicules...
Douglas V. McLellan '94 said budgetary constraints are a strong argument against the creation of any new departments and said curricular change should be based on academic, not political agendas...
Panelist Douglas McLellan '94 disagreed, sayingthat while he didn't like the current trend inself-separatism, it would be inappropriate for theadministration to abrogate "the ability to havefreedom in social and academic life...