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...before, students say the single room currently used by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) as a center for women's issues is woefully inadequate. They say that the room, located on the top floor of Agassiz House in Radcliffe Yard, is too small, inconveniently located and inaccessible. Meanwhile, even that facility's existence is in jeopardy. Based on what Radcliffe president Linda S. Wilson has said about her plans for reorganizing Agassiz House, students expect to lose what space they have there, and to be left only with the use of the Lyman Common Room. Although that common room...
...would pull the women's community here together," said Serena Y. Volpp '92, co-president of RUS, "It would create a larger women's community." But Volpp stressed that a center would be more than just "a supportive social environment...
Robertson's decision to spice her study oftraditional disciplines with a focus on women'sissues reflects her attitude not only toacademics, but the real world as well. Herextracurricular activities--she was co-presidentof both the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) andResponse, a peer counseling group that handlesissues of sexual harassment--blend smoothly withher intellectual aims. In a sense, the classroomand the real world were destined to merge for thiswoman who has developed such a strong sense of theways in which the intellectual and the personalinteract...
...studying these issues in the classroomand that led me to translate my concerns to therealm of social activism," Robertson says abouther involvement with RUS and Response...
Melissa R. Hart '91 is executive editor of The Crimson and an active member of RUS. Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 is editorial chair of The Crimson...