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Harvard's Women's Studies program, which currently consists of a listing of courses offered in other departments is inadequate, according to a Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) pamphlet distributed this week. The field "remains unrecognized by the various departments," the pamphlet says. Elizabeth A. Einaudi '83, president of RUS and co-author of the pamphlet, said this week the lack of recognition results from the University's "long-standing bias against Women's Studies." But Judith A. Kates, coordinator of the committee on Women's Studies, said this week that bias isn't the problem. "There just hasn...
Another controversy, this time with the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), was resolved when the women's group essentially pulled out of the new student council. RUS, which currently receives $5 a year from every woman in the College, voted last spring to "give moral support to the new student council, but to retain our funds and our autonomy for the moment." Until there are written provisions assuring support for women's organizations, Elisabeth M. Einaudi '83, president of RUS and a member of the constitutional committee, has said, "the position of RUS is to remain separate from the Dowling...
Nonetheless, in light of the student council's plans to fund undergraduate organizations, RUS has decided to withdraw its funding of campus women's groups. "Women are a part of both the Harvard and Radcliffe communities, and they will pay fees to both RUS and the council. We feel women are entitled to council funds on the same basis as men--we don't want women to be doubly penalized," Einaudi says, adding that RUS will be watching to see if the council discriminates funding women's organizations because RUS has supported them in the past...
...think RUS feels a little threatened by the proposal," Dowling says--but some students disagree. Ross Boylan '81-4, a vocal critic of the Dowling Report and a member of the Constitutional committee, feels that the Dowling Committee simply ignored women's and minority concerns, which he feels must be addressed. "The Dowling Committee made a big mistake by not involving RUS and minority groups in its discussions," he says...
Some students disagree. "The Dowling Committee made a big mistake by not involving RUS and minority groups in its discussions." Boylan says, adding, "It unilaterally went ahead and wrote a document without any provision to insure that minority concerns are addressed. The student constitutional committee, in a compromise between the Dowling report and the current system, has included a clause in the draft constitution allowing minority groups, including the Gay Students Association, to appoint non-voting...