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Radcliffe officials cannot influence the decision unless Bok asks the Joint Policy Committee of Harvard and Radcliffe to discuss the fate of the term-bill funding, A. Simone Reagor, director of the Radcliffe Forum, said yesterday...
Harvard was created in accordance with a "male vision" and should be reshaped to include the "female vision," Reagor says. "We don't want women simply to become men; we don't want that model. We want to reshape the society. It is not easy to do. Harvard doesn't want to be reshaped," she adds. To change almost 350 years of tradition, she says "the strategy is to keep Radcliffe alive. There will be a need for Radcliffe as long as this is a male-oriented society--optimistically, a century...
...Reagor left the division of research grants at the National Endowment for Humanities in the summer of 1976 for a "self-supported sabbatical" in Martha's Vineyard, where she read and wrote. At the time of the Harvard-Radcliffe agreement, Reagor was doing research in Cambridge; and subsequently through her acquaintances in the administration landed a job as director of the forum. She had never before dealt with women's issues alone, but feels it is important for all women to consider these questions at some point in their lives...
...were an undergraduate today, Reagor admits, she probably would say she goes to Harvard, not Radcliffe. However, the name Radcliffe must be retained, Reagor adds, for legal and financial purposes. Some foundations will not give Harvard money but will grant money to Radcliffe, which they picture as a small women's college struggling with a large university, Reagor says. For example, two Truman scholarships, instead of one, are granted to Harvard-Radcliffe students because Radcliffe maintains its unique autonomy...
Comstock feels a women's studies department should be created since it would have more political weight than the existing Committee on Women's Studies. However, forum director Reagor feels "a lot would be lost by having a separate women's studies department." Instead of concentrating all attention to women in a single department, Reagor says all fields should be taught with an emphasison women. When studying the history of a period in which women apparently made no contributions, scholars should ask, "How was the thinking of that time affected by the fact that women were excluded?" Reagan says...