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Located on the first floor of Fay House in the Radcliffe Yard, the OWE has not enjoyed great visibility this past year, in large part because it operated without a director until February. Conceived by President Horner last year, the office was directed by Alberta B. Arthurs, overall dean of admissions, financial aid and women's education, until the appointment after a year-long search of Judith B. Walzer, lecturer on Yiddish Literature, as director...
Nonetheless, the OWE's summary of its first year reveals a number of studies completed or in progress, and several projects that will form the basis of the office's work in the future. Because this work ranges from studies on the academic fields in which women concentrate to an afternoon session on "crimes against women," from investigating the amount of prize money available to women to hosting a special national conference of women historians next fall, the immediate question is, what does "women's education" mean to Radcliffe administrators...
...Arthurs's view, the OWE does have a coherent mission, which may be best defined in terms of what it is not: It does not function as a dean of students office, nor is it especially concerned with collecting every conceivable fact about Radcliffe women...
...ditches teach me nothing else, they've taught me how incredibly fortunate we are and how much we owe it to the society which supports us to lift up our eyes and reach for the stars...
...owe an apology for your flippancy first and foremost to those who are suffering and dying under the gun of General Pinochet, and also to those who sponsored and participated in this small but important demonstration: Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee, Haitian Action Committee, Harvard-Radcliffe La Raza, Indochina Peace Campaign (Boston), MECHA, Revolutionary Communist League (Internationalist), Revolutionary Communist Youth, Spartacist League, and Youth Against War and Fascism. Keith Anderson The Spartacist League