Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...open meeting between students and the Faculty committee this spring chaired by Edward L. Keenan '57, the most vocal students challenged the committee's stated opposition to forming a concentration in women's studies. Keenan argued that women's studies has no methodology, "no way of discovering facts" that differs from the way any other researcher attacks a problem. Instead, researchers in women's studies approach questions about women using the techniques of a historian, a scientist, an anthropologist or an economist, for example...
...degree from the Ed School in 1963. At this time, she says, she began to see "a tendency towards a group who was assuming Radcliffe should merge with Harvard and be distributed in it. This concerned me because I wasn't sure whether this was quite the way we should go...I realized that money was a major problem, and that lack of money seemed to be the real threat to Radcliffe's survival." So Lyman became interested in fundraising, and it soon became evident that she was good at it. "This is reality, money's a reality...
...very well in their efforts to develop women's studies interests among regular faculty members. The associates have offered courses in Hindu goddesses, black female notions of Christ and the legal status of women under traditional Jewish marria laws, but one critic points out, "You could go all the way through the Divinity School and never see any of that stuff...
...debate the controversy through meetings and discussions rather than protest. Their position had initially mirrored that of the undergraduate protesters. But to many students in the one-year MPA program, resolving the controversy within the year became a matter of pride. The K-School students went out of their way to negotiate the issue...
...University remained adamant about considering the boycott issue by way of traditional channels. House committee consideration and a subsequent Student Asembly call for a petition drive garnered thousands of signatures and broadened the boycott's base of support. But administrators told boycott organizers they would have to present their case before CHUL, since the Student Assembly was not yet officially recognized by the University...