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James A. Garland, chairman of the B.U. chapter of the American Association of University Pofessors, said yesterday the faculty union will provide moral and legal support to all six professors. Emphasizing that the tenure system was designed to prevent universities from penalizing outspoken professors, Garland said firing the BU. professors "would be a terrible violation of academic freedom...
...then a few diehards fussed about the dangers to the old boy network. A rapid growth of the female student body might reduce "male bonding," David Riesman and his colleagues predicted. Some of the elderly professors liked to "pretend that the old system still existed, when it had long gone by the boards," Pusey now recalls...
However, improved social relations were only a by-product of co-residency and the end of parietals, Molony says. "The most important change is that women have become much more an accepted part of the University rather than an appendage." The eventual end of the quota system made women full-fledged members of the Harvard community, and at the same time provided them unprecedented freedom to interact responsibly with Harvard men. This stands in sharp contrast to the parietal system, where women lived in a structure designed to check up on their social lives. As Rosenblum says, "It was just...
Cornell has showed the rest of the league how to play offense, averaging 424 yards per game with its rotating quarterback system...
Students today take for granted that the single admissions committee considers applications without regard to sex, but only five years ago, Radcliffe admitted women on a strict quota system dictated by Harvard, and the two admissions committees were completely separate operations...