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Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment adopted one of their most effective tactics in 1977 when they called for a boycott of all national conventions scheduled to be held in states that have failed to ratify ERA. Since then, over 400 professional, scientific and political organizations have refused to meet in non-ERA states, forgoing meetings in such traditional convention cities as Chicago, New Orleans and Miami. Now comes a major backslider from that boycott commitment: the American Psychiatric Association. On the pretense that the A.P.A. should avoid involvement in any political issue, the group voted...
...that an approach to an issue, a policy or even language used is sexist. The graduate women get the support they need to bring up these concerns publicly from programs and groups like those the Forum organizes. The professors these women are trying to educate to treat women as equal colleagues also teach undergraduate women...
...hope undergraduate women will quickly organize to articulate the direct benefits the Radcliffe Forum gives them and to convince President Horner that the Forum's services are necessary, representing the essence of the goal to provide women an excellent and equal education. I hope, too, that President Horner will reevaluate her decision in light of the myriad of indirect benefits the Forum gives to undergraduate women through its services for graduate women. Cynthia J. Dahlin Kennedy School of Government
...Obviously, there is equal access to financial aid for women," the March 12 letter says. "Please do not give information that you are not sure of," it adds...
Anderson is indeed a liberal Republican. Rather than pushing him to the far right, his Evangelical Christianity has brought him an admirable sensitivity expressed in his valuable efforts on behalf of civil rights and freedom of choice. He has spoken out forcefully on the Equal Rights Amendment, prayer in schools and gun control...