Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between the rhetoric used by COWI members and the reform measures these members introduced. Students who support proposals to increase faculty salaries, to permit leaves of absence, and to change the school's "tree day" image do not necessarily believe that the character and student body of Wellesley College should be drastically altered. Even putting students on Academic Council or on the Admissions Committee gives little guarantee that the college will become more diversified or accommodating to change. In short, student support for the COWI proposals would not have to reflect approval of the rhetoric behind those proposals...
Much more a measure of the students' desire for change at Wellesley is the reaction to the Ethos proposals of the previous spring: demands for many more black students, black faculty and administrators, and black courses. To imagine a college that is ten per cent black, rounded out by black heads of house, black administrators, and black professors teaching courses in black history--to imagine this is to view a school that is quite different from the Wellesley of today One student's remarks typified much of the student reaction to such a change, "I'm satisfied with what...
...this very willingness to accept change that COWI members seek to instill into the students and administration at Wellesley. The reform-minded students want to demonstrate that unconventional courses and girls who are not from a "middle class social milieu" are not inferior just because they are different...
...changes that Ethos seeks in Wellesley are so specific that they can be expressed in quantitative terms. "The thing that is important to me," Nancy Gist said, "is giving more black students a chance at higher education so they can affect change where its needed--in the big bad world...
That does not require altering the attitudes or composition of Wellesley's student body. "I see it as enough that the administration will act without the students," concluded Karen Williamson...