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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pull one ad--at least wash our hands of I percent of the problem we face? Because the selective barring of ads merely highlights our hypocrisy. At the same time Eastern Airlines is being struck, workers are picketing Shawmut Bank--a frequent Crimson advertiser--for its ties to a union-busting firm now hurting thousands of striking Appalachian coal miners. Are these workers any less oppressed than Eastern strikers and any less worthy of our political notice...
...Since this is a citywide zoning proposal, it is quite a bit more unlikely that a contingent of 20 percent of the citizens will object," Geer said...
Fewer and fewer women are concentrating in the Government Department: though women comprise 41 percent of the student body they comprise only 27 percent of the Government Department concentrators this year, as compared to 33 percent in 1982. According to the report, women government concentrators are more likely than men in the field or women in other departments to: 1) feel uncomfortable in class 2) see sexism as a problem in the department and 3) think that they must fight to talk in class. the report found that many women opt not to major in government because of the competitive...
...report signals a problem that is not unique to the Government Department. In many departments women are underrepresented among students, and in all fields women are underrepresented among senior faculty--they hold only 6 percent of Harvard's tenured posts...
...many departments have shown no willingness to counteract their gender imbalances. Both the Economics Department--with 24 percent women concentrators--and the History Department--with 27 percent--have a paucity of women concentrators similar to the Government Department, yet neither has recognized the situation as problematic. to the contrary, according to history department chair edward 1. keenan '57, "this doesn't strike me as a great statistical discrepancy...