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Women’s Center advocates also believe the center will serve as a safe space. I wish that the idea of “safe space?? was no longer needed, but it remains disappointingly relevant to students of all genders on campus. While Harvard as an institution may be committed to the well-being of all, it is a reality that has not yet been achieved. Three on-campus sexual assaults were reported to the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response at Harvard within the past week. Last year, a passer-by perpetrated a hate crime...
...others argue that “social space?? set aside for women (though not exclusively, since that wouldn’t fly with Harvard’s discrimination policies) is necessary because all-male final clubs control the vast majority of purely social space at Harvard. What they don’t take into account is that this space is privately financed. The College should not be pressured to help fix a social space gap for which it is not responsible. Of course, there’s a larger problem, too. Not nearly one-quarter...
...take particular exception to the argument for “safe space??—the term implies that there is something dangerous about Harvard at large, which is false. Harvard should be, and is, committed to keeping all of its students “safe,” and a call for “safe space?? has lately become little more than a buzz word with, thankfully, diminishing rhetorical impact. Women’s center advocates would better serve their cause by stressing the one legitimate role that the space could play...
Finally, there is the issue of office space??Providing offices for RUS, Girlspot, Athena Theater Company, the Association of Harvard Black Women, and the other clubs in the pro-women’s center camp does not a “women’s center” make. Does anyone really think that this center, as it is currently conceived, will truly be a place where many women will congregate? Rather, the far more likely outcome will be a women’s center that becomes an exclusive space for the groups that pushed for its creation...
...already said that plans are “at the beginning of the ground floor of a very open process.” Better it stays that way. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has said that “the assignment of student space?? is a “frontburner issue.” Gross can back up his words by refraining from hiring a director to oversee a women’s center and instead hiring a director to consolidate and better apportion existing student space, as well as lobby...