Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...establish a women's studies concentration which would allow interested undergraduates to major in an interdisciplinary program examining women's experience. The goal also includes a specific perspective for such a major. Committee members stress that a concentration should not merely be concerned with establishing the field as a valid academic discipline but also recognize and work to alleviate the oppression of Third World and working women. Frequently, courses on women run the danger of studying only those women who "have made it in a man's world, and are chosen by men to be studied," Laura Orgel...
Problems remain, even if one accepts women's studies as a valid area and recognizes its potential student support. Faculty interest seems limited. Goodenough says that all existing specialty committees have had strong individual faculty lobbying in support of them. For the previously mentioned reasons, that seems unlikely to happen for women's studies. Last year, the subcommittee that has grown into the current group sent letters to 800 faculty members asking for support. The response was negligible. The committee remains undaunted, and Stokes says, "The more faculty support the better, but if given a choice between faculty...
Stokes answers such objections by saying that the danger of a loss of perspective is a valid one, which is why a concentration must be interdisciplinary. As for the long-range goal of complete integration, Orgel says it is of course ultimately desirable, but "it's too idealistic" for the present...
...valid are the new jitters? Certainly, recent statistics have not been cheering. Led by climbing food and fuel costs, the January Consumer Price Index rose at an annual rate of 10%, the biggest monthly jump in a year and a half. No one expects that hectic pace to continue through the spring, but energy costs are certain to go on rising this year. Moreover, prices of a number of commodities-cocoa, cotton and most notably coffee-are climbing...
...from personal antipathy towards Gorski, who as a newcomer bent on shaking up the University's police force was certain to encounter a considerable amount of parochial resistance. Nevertheless, the University's response has so far demonstrated little recognition of the fact that the Police Association might have some valid arguments--and as a result there seems little chance of disentangling the contract negotiations in the near future...