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...instance, the Office of Women's Education (OWE)--one of President Horner's major visible accomplishments of her first year in office--is, very simply, your friend. Headed by Judith Walzer and staffed by Connie Gersick and Shannon Randall, the office is Radcliffe's built-in insurance that administrators and students will not stare at each other across a gap, but will regularly interact...
...Walzer says that none of the projects her office has undertaken this year has been artificially constructed, but instead, that they have met some of the existing concerns of women. Despite its broad title, the office is geared to approach these concerns at a specific level...
...Walzer is unwilling to talk about the so-called "special needs of women" except in the context of Harvard. Moreover, while her office functions as initiator and advocate on behalf of women, Walzer feels that many of the problems that women undergraduates bring to her should be handled through existing agencies. "Maybe the student doesn't know that there is an office that's supposed to handle her problem, or maybe the office needs some enlightened encouragement to help her," she explains...
...other instances, Walzer says she feels that the OWE should not assume direct responsibility for projects--a course on human sexuality, for example--but should simply facilitate the work of people who are interested in starting them. As it is, a large part of the office's objects are done in conjunction with such diverse agencies as the academic departments, the University Health Services, the OGCP, the Radcliffe Institute and the Committee on Undergraduate Education...
...despite the fact that, as Walzer puts it, "people generally understand what you mean when you say that Harvard is a male institution," the underlying assumption at the OWE is that its chief purpose is to disappear eventually. "It serves to give strength, unity and focus to the minority group of women in this community," Arthurs says. "Once women are, feel like less of a minority, there will be less of a need...