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Harvard's offerings are sparse and marginal especially compared to Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, which have full women's studies programs. Stokes thinks Harvard does not take the area seriously yet, adding that Harvard is often not as responsive generally to the desires of student as are some schools. Ursula Goodenough, assistant professor of Biology and chairman of the Faculty Standing Committee on Women, looks at it from the perspective of a faculty member. She told a Cambridge Forum audience that those with an interest in the field are junior faculty members. She contends that they are afraid...
...University of Pennsylvania won the fencing tournament, while NYU took second and Princeton third in the 11 team competition. Harvard missed a third-place finish by one bout...
...firm receives 400 written inquiries a week, expects to double the number of dealer outlets this year and sell some 200 units (about $2.2 million worth). Peter Tobia's brother Ronald, who owns a separate company, Building Concepts, Inc., that builds finished dome-iciles in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, anticipates sales of up to 100 domes in its area for a total of some $3 million this year. Cathedralite Domes, in Aptos, Calif., reports that sales of kits are running at 60 a month (average price: $6,500). The company expects to gross between $3 million and $5 million...
...economy and how lucky you are about weather and fluctuations in world oil prices." Eckstein forecasts a 6.4% rise in the Consumer Price Index this year-worse than the 5.8% of 1976 but a long way from double digits. Adds John Bunting, chairman of Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Bank: "The more conservative people are rekindling fears of inflation because they think that it is the only way to stop Congress from spending more money...
...with one of the largest programs,offers courses in "Sex Roles and Linguistic Behavior," "Women, Race and Politics," "Working Women in Nine Countries," "Women Writers of Africa, Afro-America and the Carribean" and "Women's Role in Rural Development," and 24 other courses specifically about women. The University of Pennsylvania, another Ivy League institution with a Women's Studies major, offers courses such as "Twentieth Century Women Novelists," and "Discrimination: Sexual and Racial Conflict." Yale University, with its relatively short history of educating women, managed to incorporate 14 courses on women in its curriculum last year. Among these are: "Women...