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This would seem to be the case from Harvard's reaction to the Students Against Sweatshops (SAS) movement, a national initiative that PSLM signed on to early this year. The movement calls for the regulation of factories that manufacture Harvard apparel...
...students are what make the College special. And I, along with many of my colleagues, agree, feeling that I have learned more from my collected classmates than from my entire academic program. But if the students are such an integral part of the Harvard experience, why do students seem so often dismissed? Why is student happiness a subject of open campus debate for the first time in recent memory? Why is the position of dean of students being eliminated? Or to bring it into quantitative terms--they tell me big donors look at student giving to evaluate student satisfaction...
...recent years, even Epps' more controversialstands seem to have been forgotten...
...design it so that women are still doing 75 percent of the housework, scrubbing and buffing away the hours? Why do female role models all seem to be deputy-bosses? What's with getting so excited about mayoral and gubernatorial races that have never included female candidates? And above all, if we've got more than half of the undergraduate degrees under our belts and will soon claim an overwhelming majority of the professional ones, what's the ladies room in that little domed building on Capitol Hill doing so empty...
Recent signs, however, seem to indicate that the Ad Board, in its present state, is not adequately equipped to handle particular matters, especially when it is forced to step out of its proclaimed "educational" role and engage in substantive fact-finding. A case last spring involving sexual assault is one such instance; the women who brought forth the charge wrote, after the proceedings, that "the [Ad Board] system doesn't work. It is flawed. It is archaic and it is not made to deal with cases of sexual assault...