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When he got back to his home in Wisconsin, Lucey says, there were messages all over to call John Anderson. Soon afterwards he accepted a slot on the National Unity Party's ticket. The ten weeks on the campaign trail for Anderson were "an invigorating experience," he says. "I never campaigned harder in my life, though I knew there was no uncertainty about the outcome...
...LAST, a perceptible melting in the glacier that is Harvard's women's studies program. Perennially reluctant to advance a viable women's studies curriculum, the Faculty is now taking steps to create a new joint-tenure slot in the field. Under a plan proposed last year, individual departments can compete for the newly-authorized position, which would allow it to hire an extra scholar primarily involved in studying women's issues within the discipline. To date, only three departments--Anthropology, English, and Psychology and Social Relation--have drawn up lists of potential candidates, but others may follow suit...
...studies concentration at the College. The Committee on Special Concentrations--which has in the past turned a deaf ear on women's studies proposals--approved an undergraduate concentration on "Gender as a Variable in Social, Scientific and Humanistic Studies." Although unrelated to the push for a joint tenure slot, the committee approval is confirmation that Harvard is willing to treat women's studies as a serious field of study...
...scholar clearly cannot go far in bolstering the College's paltry women's studies offerings. Only a few departments--such as Afro-American Studies, which now offers a course on Black women writers--have risen to the call. And, that so few departments bothered to vie for the new slot does not augur well for the futures of this grassroots approach...
...life on stage at the Agassiz was a year and a half long process for the Eliot House resident. After writing the play the summer after his freshman year, Kenney spent the fall of his sophomore year rewriting before applying to the Office for the Arts for a slot at the Agassiz for the following fall. Last summer the play went through a third draft with the fourth and final draft being hammered out between author director John Hawkins and actors at rehearsals this fall...