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...When Paget requested those practice hours for the women (other times conflicted with the swimmers' classes), she says, Watson called her "disloyal to Harvard" and charged her with attempting "to destroy the men's swimming team...
...also called the women athletes "dabblers," rather than committed sportswomen, Paget says. Three other Radcliffe athletes say Watson also called them "dabblers" when they requested longer or prime time hours. Asked in an interview whether he had so branded women athletes, Watson did not deny the charge and repeated that most women's programs "are not as intense...
Watson and Paget reached a standoff in late spring and Paget refused to talk to him for almost a month, dodging his phone calls and visits to her office. "We think we've been treated like pariahs," Paget said...
Freely translated: no assistant for Paget, and little change in the concept of men's priorities over prime time and limited facilities...
...Watson claims, or whether it is largely a consequence of the HEW regulations, next year women athletes at Harvard will get a much better deal than they have in the past few years. "Now I can say that it was good that Radcliffe athletics merged with Harvard athletics," Paget said last week...