Word: peimer
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...seniors Megan L. Peimer '97 and Ezra W. Reese '97 established an "alternative" senior gift fund to protest the lack of tenured women on the faculty. Peimer and Reese asked seniors to withhold their donations from the University and to store them in a private escrow account instead until Harvard hired more women to tenured spots. The fund raised several thousand dollars overall...
...Alternative Senior Gift Fund (ASGF), started two years ago by Megan Peimer '97, was a cause I sincerely wanted to support. The University will not receive the money donated to the ASGF until the number of tenured female professors matches the number Harvard once claimed would be hired. The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard is currently responsible for the money donated to the fund by the Class of '97. No word has yet been issued as to whether the Class of '99 will be asked to donate to the fund...
Last year, an "alternative" senior gift wasestablished by Megan L. Peimer '97 and Ezra W.Reese '97 to protest what they saw as a low tenurerate of women faculty...
...very symbolic because many members of the senior class will eventually have a significant amount of money," Peimer said. "If they're saying now that they're not satisfied with the University, that forebodes poorly for the University's future fundraising attempts...
...instituting a change that has been happening for a couple of years: moving away from being a student group and towards being an activist group for Harvard-Radcliffe women's issues," said Peimer...