Word: scheibner
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...collection of girls from middle class suburban homes who find neither in their education nor their living conditions at Wellesley anything that questions or contradicts the mode of life to which they are accustomed. Such an experience, according to the girls in COWI, has no educational value. As Nancy Scheibner '69, a leading member of COWI, explained at an All-College Meeting, "Wellesley must find her identity as an educational center in which the norm is no longer that of conforming to...a middle class cultural milieu but in which each individual is seeking to maximize her own creative potential...
...points of significance emerged from the COWI proposals and Miss Scheibner's explanation of them. COWI was concerned with issues that affected white as well as black students, and the critique of the college was directed as much at the students as at the administration...