Word: pitkin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rally, says RUS Secretary Annabella C. Pitkin '90, was a strong way to quiet the community fears. Pitkin, who co-founded the Women's Alliance, an umbrella organization that addresses gender issues on campus, says today that the rally's purpose was three-fold: to demonstrate solidarity with the survivor; to give women an outlet for their fears; and to "reclaim" the Science Center...
...wanted to] say, "This space is ours and we have a right to be safe here,'" Pitkin says...
...Pitkin says she thinks the most salient reaction to the rape was "self-protectedness"; she summons the image of women travelling in groups during the night from the Women's Center in Agassiz Hall...
...while she concedes that change is slow in coming at Harvard, Pitkin--after a year's worth of activism on security issues--is nonetheless optimistic that the demands of the rally will someday be met. "It takes a long time for a big organization like Harvard to get in motion," she says...
...more impressed by things that are going to happen, than the things that have happened," Pitkin adds...