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HARVARD has traditionally refused to take women seriously. Throughout its history, the University has treated women with callous neglect--as employees, as students and scholars, and as subjects for serious academic study. The Social Anthropology faculty was following a hallowed Harvard tradition, therefore, when it refused to renew the one-year teaching contract of Janet Fjellman, lecturer on Social Relations and a radical feminist. Fjellman's course, Social Relations 1002, "Women from a Cross-Cultural Perspective," is currently the only open-enrollment course on women's studies available to undergraduates. It will not be offered next year, for no one...
...stated reason for Fjellman's dismissal is a familiar one--funds, it seems, are not available. Irven DeVore, acting chairman of the Social Anthropology faculty, said last week that he has no complaint about Fjellman's competence and that he personally has "tremendous respect for her intellectual abilities." But DeVore said that there are other--more urgent--areas of scholarship to which available funds must be devoted. He cited two other members of the Social Anthropology faculty with one-year contracts who are being rehired--Harvard's only specialists on Chicano and American Indian studies. DeVore said that ethnic studies...
Critics of the current Yard set-up claim the disadvantages of such an arrangement begin with the compounding of problems that occurs when people with similar troubles are concentrated in one residential area. Add 'this to the lack of opportunity for developing relationships with upperclassmen, and the frustrations and related problems that sex-segregated housing patterns create for male freshmen--freshmen are left in a one-year collegiate purgatory. Are male freshmen really so miserable? It all depends on which survey you read. A University Hall survey of a few years ago reports that freshmen are generally satisfied with...
Last November Harrison was convicted of larceny of the person and simple assault and battery: he received a one-year suspended sentence and a three-year parole...
Policy of Terror. Last week Faulkner took the calculated risk of ordering a one-year continuation of a ban on all public demonstrations. In Ulster, parades are both extremely popular and the cause of sectarian clashes. The decree infuriated Catholics-at week's end they staged two protest marches halted by troops using tear gas -as well as Protestants. "The government has capitulated to the policy of terror!" cried the Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of many militant Protestants. "The I.R.A. has won." There were some suggestions that the I.R.A., for its part, might try a new tactic by organizing...