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Today, by contrast, the campus left largely has not risen to the challege. Meanwhile, graduate programs in California and Texas scale back affirmative-action programs, the U.S. embarks on an uncharted course of welfare reduction in the name of "reform," and the middle class increasingly feels the squeeze from rising...
Redmond and others are also quick to bemoanwhat they perceive as the club's lack of ethnic orsocioeconomic diversity. Redmond says she believesshe may have been punched because, as a blackwoman, she could add diversity to theorganization.
Still other professors join students in bemoaning what they perceive as an institutionalized lack of personal contact between students and faculty.
But some professors, such as Andrew P. Metrick, head tutor in Economics, say students mistakenly perceive that faculty who teach large courses are remote.
"I didn't perceive a tremendous amount of sexist feeling," he says. "She had nothing to overcome except tradition-there was no sense of `A woman can't do this, damn it.'"