Word: peimer
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According to Megan L. Peimer '97, spokesperson for the Alternative Senior Gift Coalition, the fund will provide an option to the traditional Senior Gift Fund for students who are dissatisfied with Harvard policy on a variety of issues...
...Peimer said members of the Coalition could have chosen any of these concerns for the fund, but picked the issue of women and minority hiring because they had already researched...
...Peimer said that although the SENIORSpool's size varies from year to year, Harvard's hiring practices have never come close to matching it, and fall especially short for women in the social sciences...
According to Peimer, the Coalition has secured a Faculty adviser, Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters. In addition, 20 faculty members have pledged to support the goal to hire more women and minority Faculty in general...
...Both Peimer and Scott L. Shuchart '97, another organizer of the Coalition, said their goal is not to amass a large sum of money, but to get a large percentage of the senior class to show their support by donating...