Word: radcliffee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary Felstiner '63 says her political activism, and particularly her interest in women's rights, developed after graduation. "I left Radcliffe and realized a few years later that I had been duped," she says of her college experience. "Nothing would drive me to political action faster than that feeling."
And Marcy Benstock '63, a professional organizer credited with stopping New York City's Westway development, says she grew interested in politics only after graduation. "When I was at Radcliffe I was apolitical," she says. "I was an English major."
"My experience at Radcliffe," she continues, "and knowing and caring about women there gave me a base for believing that women should turn to each other for help."
Beginning three years ago, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA) used petitions to offer candidates against the traditional University-sponsored slate of 10; five overseers are elected each year, for six-year terms. Seidman was elected in 1986. Last year, Peter H. Wood '64 and Consuela M. Washington of the...
Also significant was the dramatic rise of the popularity of the Quad among students, who have traditionally ignored the old Radcliffe dormitories. The University has just spent two years and $33 million renovating the Quad. According to North House Master J. Woodland Hastings, his house was the first or second...