Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Ethos and COWI are willing to work independently of each other for apparently different reforms. Their goals, however, are inter-related. If COWI does succeed in changing the type of student that attends Wellesley, Ethos will find its task easier. Black students will not feel alienated from a student body that prides itself on its diversity; and black courses and perspectives will naturally appear in course listings that are, as COWI wishes, continually being questioned and revised...
...other hand, the leaders of COWI cannot assert that they have altered Wellesley if change, in its most obvious form, is persistently resisted. Black students' demands to see themselves integrated into all aspects of life at Wellesley must be a part of any resolution calling for significant change on the campus...
Ultimately, any revisions in Wellesley's educational system will come, as the students in Ethos readily admit, from the administration. Students in both COWI and Ethos question the administration's commitment to reformation of the college. Initiative for change has always come from students and has usually succeeded only under student pressure. Ethos' adoption of a wait-and-see attitude after the October 7 meeting marked the end of militancy on the campus, at least for the foreseeable future. The only pressure compelling the administration to act is the interest in the COWI proposals which have developed among students...
When listening or talking to administrators at Wellesley, one immediately senses that at their level there is no feeling of urgency. The college's deans and president are continuously driving home the theme that all changes take time. It is a refrain that blacks have heard before...
...might be a good place to add a black administrator. Yet such an action is designed only to alleviate immediate grievances; it is not part of a clearly defined pattern of change. As Mrs. Melvin explains, "We don't have a method or answers about what we think a Wellesley education should be, but we are working...