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...products are degradable. But for the process to work, a certain amount of moisture must be present in the soil, and critics argue that landfills are not always moist enough for the plastic to break down. Even some trash that deteriorates can take years to do so. Says Jeanne Wirka, a solid-waste expert at Environmental Action in Washington: "There are newspapers that have been dug up in landfills that are 30 years old and still can be read." Another decided drawback to the degradable material is that it is made from petroleum, a dwindling resource. Says Wirka: "Degradable plastics...
Some individuals insist any discrimination is wrong, as witness Jeanne Wirka, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, quoted in the January-February 1985 issue of Harvard Magazine: "The problem with clubs is that they are denigrating to the outgroup in general. It's too bad that the issue has become 'should the clubs admit women?' The point is that the clubs should exclude everybody [sic]--they simply shouldn't be here, and Harvard shouldn't have anything to do with them." Jake Stevens '86, a member of the Committee on College Life, puts it less broadly, "The Committee acts...
Something like the beliefs expressed by Grossman, Wirka and Stevens are widely shared by students today, but not universally, and I wonder that Harvard should impose those of Stevens on everyone. (If, indeed, it was prepared to do so had not the Clubs, with fine aristocratic disdain, withdrawn from the arena. In the event, former Dean of the College, John Fox, whom the Committee advises, was spared by the necessity of tipping his hand.) Is it not sufficient that the Committee on College Life have opportunity to persuade? Even as I would hope to persuade Harvard, other universities...
...Klein made the point that the women's... vote did not simply appear and disappear," said Jeanne L. Wirka '86, president...
...speech was educational and, as Ethel would say, empowering," said Ann Pellegini '86 who, with Wirka, organized the event. "We are trying to get the women's voice heard on campus and this is part of the effort", she said...