Word: open
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard sees it, to join the College, all Radcliffe programs must now open their doors to men. Otherwise, Harvard could be open to a lawsuit...
This legal interpretation of Title IX suits Harvard well because College policy has long prohibited programs open to only one sex anyway. No final clubs, no women's center, administrators have argued for years...
...believe that equality of opportunity means just that--to the extent that we can achieve it, all our programs should be open to all our students on an equal basis," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 writes in an e-mail message...
...compliance with respect to academic programs has never been ironed out--only a court can flesh out the law's official interpretation, but no school wants to be the legal guinea pig. As a result, most schools have been wary of instituting single-sex academic programs that could open them up to a legal challenge...
Like Harvard, administrators declared that no program could be open to only one sex. But, they carefully announced, the dean would retain the right to allow single-sex programs when an overriding educational purpose could be served...