Word: bastion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Radcliffe Women's Action Coalition (RADWAC), a task force under the auspices of the Radcliffe Union of Students, put up posters which parodied the clubs with such phrases as "Swat the Fly" and "Support Your Local Bastion of Classist Patriarchal Elitism...
Susan S. Lyman '49 is the former chair of Radcliffe's Board of Trustees and former acting dean of the Bunting Institute, the College's multidisciplinary center of advanced studies for women. She says Knowles' letter shows that Harvard is "still a bastion of male superiority...
...There is a bastion of patriarchy on this campus; you can't expect things to move quickly," said Lisa D. Graustein '97, who served as a member of an undergraduate group formed by Lewis to advise him on issues pertinent to female students...
...undergraduate front, there have also been promising signs that the reputations of the clubs are souring. The Radcliffe Women's Action Coalition (RADWAC), a task force of the Radcliffe Union of Students, conducted a postering campaign against the clubs over Junior Parents Weekend in March. "Support Your Local Bastion of Classist Patriarchal Elitism--Go to a Final Club Party," read one apt sign...
Imagine the unease the typical final club member must have felt, sauntering through the yard with mom and dad during Junior Parents Weekend, only to come upon signs reading, "Support Your Local Bastion of Classist Patriarchal Elitism--Go to a Final Club Party...