Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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For women who study all week in the single-sex environment of Wellesley College--where the nearby Coffee Connection closes at 8:30 p.m. on Friday nights--the bus represents the only means of escape. With its leaky windows, pervasive smell of car exhaust, and "fuck truck" image, the bus...
The large crowd heading for Boston and Cambridge reveals some of the social pressures that accompany going to a single-sex school. During the week Wellesley students toil in an all-female environment and find it difficult to fit in the 40 minute ride to Harvard. The commuting difficulties divides...
The first failure of such codes rests in their inherent ambiguity. Aside from categories of speech that have long been considered punishable--such as threats, physical acts and "fighting words"--universities are unable to draw a satisfactory line that defines harassment without endangering free expression, a liberty that is essential...
The second and far more important objection to anti-harassment codes is that they are counterproductive. If the goal of these rules is to improve the educational environment for minorities, one should expand the amount of speech, not restrict it. Punishment of harassers does nothing to solve bigotry; it can...
Other panel members stressed that universities must make progress in hiring minority and women faculty members in order to change the learning environment for students.