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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee approved the opening of Harvard's special containment recombinant DNA laboratory, delayed since August 1976 by controversy over the safety of DNA experimentation. Harvard shelled out $600,000 to keep genes in and Cambridge City Council out--even though new federal guidelines for DNA research effectively eliminated the need for the building...
Lyman believes that Radcliffe's priorities now are initiative and advocacy on behalf of women in the university, and to undergird its existing programs with appropriate funding. But, she cautions: "I wouldn't want Radcliffe to be rich. There's always a need to be a bit hungry...Radcliffe is a flexible unit, and flexibility has to do with being a little insecure. You listen better when you're anxious, and I think that Radcliffe shouldn't be enormously wealthy. It would get a little fat in the head...
...Faculty Committee on Women's Studies are pursuing a course of action that calls for talking up women's studies as much as possible. They hope that meetings, luncheons, lectures and panel discussions will make professors and students aware of scholarship by and about women, as well as the need for more work in all disciplines...
...planning committee--as well as student efforts to talk up women's studies--the pace of change has hardly accelerated. Harvard is starting almost from scratch with only a small group of devoted supporters of women's studies. Finding interested Faculty members and the money and research material they need is the challenge the committee faces next year. The committee also hopes to keep students on its side and not allow requests for a concentration to poison the minds of faculty members whose support is crucial. Although Kates says she has been impressed with the interest the Faculty has shown...
...myths of student apathy and self-concern are harmful, not only to themselves, but also to the larger causes that are worth working for. They should realize that this time, like the spring of 1969, is one of pressing issues, a time to work hard for serious changes. There need not be another strike if the administration is willing to respond to the voices of legitimate student protest. But students should not be afraid to act if the need arises. For those who see the need for real student protest are not, to borrow Pusey's contemptuous phrase, "Walter Mittys...