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...LISSA SCHWARTZ...
...fall of 1968, two girls named Janet Lever and Pepper Schwartz arrived on the New Haven campus to begin graduate studies in sociology. Women had been attending Yale graduate schools since the turn of the century, but around the university's ivied halls and paneled smoking rooms, they soon found out, to be female was a singularly disconcerting experience...
...rightfully so." Such comments may sound like isolated examples of male resentment, but they were pretty much the norm. For one thing, nearly 40% of Yale's male students were products of all-male prep schools. By seeing women only in social situations throughout formative years, says Pepper Schwartz, the men had never learned "to develop friendships with women or to treat them as intellectual equals...
...mixture of Margaret Mead and Scarlett O'Hara," says Janet Lever. "There you are in class discussing Lolita, and the professor turns to you and asks for the woman's point of view. It created a very tense situation." By the second year, adds Pepper Schwartz, "the women students had been radicalized. They had more of an idea of what it is to be a woman in a man's world, and they were making more demands to know about themselves as women...
...will bring substantial gains for both America and China. Ojha received a clear impression from his trip that the Chinese are embarking on an intensive industrialization campaign in the countryside. The People's Republic is now prepared to pay for specific industrial goods needed for modernization. But professors Benjamin Schwartz and Ojha are quick to stress that this does not mean the Chinese are now going to rely on foreign trade to prop up the economy as was the case with Russian aid in the early Fifties...