Word: volpp
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Calling the Lyman space "a necessary facility," Serena Volpp '92, undergraduate relations committee co-chair, said it does not replace the need for a more comprehensive women's center...
Graduate student Sophie Volpp says that as a member of the Lyman Common Room Task Force, she and other students had hoped to contribute to the room's organization. But the student group, Volpp felt, was only a token voice. She highlights Lyman's hiring procedures as evidence that Lyman planners did not have women's issues foremost in mind...
...integral part of any women's center is the feeling that it is a safe and a viable option for help and referral. There were 20 people hired to staff the room, two of which were men," Volpp says. "This could create problems for women who want to discuss issues of sexual harassment. We want a professionally staffed center, multiple meeting and office spaces, and programming money. Although Lyman serves an important function, we haven't really gotten what we want...
...would pull the women's community here together," said Serena Y. Volpp '92, co-president of RUS, "It would create a larger women's community." But Volpp stressed that a center would be more than just "a supportive social environment...
...would perform a broad-based educational service, and a base for advocacy and social change," Volpp said...