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...instance, the Office of Women's Education (OWE)--one of President Horner's major visible accomplishments of her first year in office--is, very simply, your friend. Headed by Judith Walzer and staffed by Connie Gersick and Shannon Randall, the office is Radcliffe's built-in insurance that administrators and students will not stare at each other across a gap, but will regularly interact...
Amidst the flurry of its fact-finding--about concentration patterns, discrepancies in the prize money available to, and won by, Radcliffe students, women who are older than the usual college age and minority women--the OWE cannot help but make a difference for women at Harvard. Facts help to dispel myths, or at least to make them comprehensible...
...Friday afternoon, I had caught Hill and Charlie Sifford, the first black to play on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) tour, for an interview about racism on the tour and the heavy-handedness of the PGA bureaucracy. "All the black players out here owe everything to Charlie--he used to have to eat in the kitchen and change his shoes with the caddies," Hill had said. "But I've gotten to the point where I don't even bother to complain about all the shit out there anymore. Nothing ever gets changed. The PGA just does things the way they...
...would have long since had a ruling class in America, and these men would certainly have been peasants, not aristocrats. The self-made man is a phenomenon possible only in a free society. How pathetic it is that so many self-made men seem to forget the debt they owe to those institutions that make that freedom possible...
...embodiment of Radcliffe, the Office of Women's Education could be the only part of Radcliffe College that would survive merger. No one, however, has a timetable either for merger or for the OWE's demise. "One of the ironies is that as Radcliffe becomes more vigorous, forcing it to disappear is more of a problem," Arthurs said last week...