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Twenty or 30 students had flocked to the dimly lit basement for an open meeting organized by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). They were eager to discuss what appeared to be an epochal moment in the College’s 370-year history: after many stubborn years as the only school in the Ivy League without a women’s center, Harvard had signaled that it might finally be ready to establish one on campus...
...ethnically diverse group of undergraduate men and women, many of whom were not RUS regulars, began chatting about gender issues as they settled into their seats. Two ambassadors from University Hall—Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd and Assistant Dean of the College Julia G. Fox—joined the circle, smiling supportively...
...sharp, the student group that had reserved Loker for the next hour filed in and courteously gave RUS the boot...
Though they are thrilled to have administrators listening, current and former members of RUS and the Undergraduate Council (UC) are wary of what they see as a decades-long history of miscommunication and broken promises from Harvard...
Finally, there is the issue of office space—Providing offices for RUS, Girlspot, Athena Theater Company, the Association of Harvard Black Women, and the other clubs in the pro-women’s center camp does not a “women’s center” make. Does anyone really think that this center, as it is currently conceived, will truly be a place where many women will congregate? Rather, the far more likely outcome will be a women’s center that becomes an exclusive space for the groups that pushed for its creation...