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Elizabeth Einaudi, 1983 class marshall and Leverett House senior, says the best thing about her Harvard experience has been concentrating in History and Science. "It's been a haven," she explains, "a way to explore those things on the margin between science and society. It's a discipline which I think will help me to synthesize a whole variety of facts and influences in later life...
...Einaudi's choice for the number-one part of her Harvard career might surprise some people on campus. She is, after all, the premier feminist of her class, a mover and shaker par excellence. What about the "Take Back the Night" march for women's security, the push for women's studies on campus, the campaign for tenured women faculty, the fight against sexual harassment, the year as president of the Radcliffe Union of Students...
Clearly these experience have been a very important part of Einaudi's four years at Harvard. Feminism, she says, is "an all-consuming passion," but it has also been the cause of some of her most frustrating moments here. "The intense pressure to perform at Harvard has consistently hindered women's political work," she says. "It's so divisive. It's impossible for women to unite for common goals, to get a sense of how they can combat sexism at this institution, when they're forced to spend so much of their time struggling to live up to that Harvard...
...Einaudi, who is from Bethesda, Md., has a mother in law school and a father who works for the State Department. It's not surprising that she's spent her time here involved in the politics of women's rights. Though Einaudi says she arrived "very open to new things, with no defined goals," she was attracted to Harvard by the implication of a female support network through Radcliffe that was important...
Once here, however, Einaudi discovered that though there was a "supportive niche for women" there was "no Radcliffe presence at all and a lot to be done." Alarmed by the frightening statistics on violence against women in the area, she created Students Organized for Security, a program to provide volunteer escorts for students wary of walking from libraries to dorms late at night. She also helped lead the first "Take Back the Night" march, an annual demonstration calling for better protection for women in general. Through SOS and the marches, Einaudi and other students put the issue of student security...