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Haase, a 1959 Goucher graduate, received her Ph.D. in medical science from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Before joining the Health Planning Council she worked at the Harvard Center for Community Health and Medical Care. Prior to that job she was an assistant professor of biology at Simmons College and a research assistant at the School of Public Health...
...interested in Jerry Goucher's enjoying his four-day week by "cramming in everything on Friday-dentists, doctors, shopping...
Companies that have adopted the four-day week have been rewarded by easier recruiting, lower turnover of scarce skilled workmen and less absenteeism. At the George H. Bullard Co. of Westboro, Mass., average absenteeism dropped from 6% of the work force to less than 1%. Says Jerry Goucher, a wheel finisher: "I don't have to lose money by leaving work to fish on opening day like the other guys have to do. Lately, I've been cramming in everything on Friday-dentists, doctors, shopping. Then we have Saturday and Sunday to go somewhere." As Jack Peterson...
...whatever they can persuade a faculty adviser to approve. At Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., one-third of the students are scattering to work with Head Start programs, study primatology with an experimental monkey colony in the Bahamas or apprentice themselves to welders to learn sculpture techniques. At Goucher College near Baltimore, the hit of 55 interim courses concocted by students and professors has the forbidding title "Chemistry and Physics Applied: Nuts and Bolts of Contemporary Society." The course is really a seminar on the workings and repair of everyday household appliances...
...Girls are seldom encouraged to think of themselves as anything but creatures who will one day substitute babies for their dolls. To change such patterns and the resultant personalities is a formidable goal, but the feminists believe that it can be achieved. Says Dr. Alice Rossi, a sociologist at Goucher College: "If you changed rearing practices and stopped punishing people who depart from the accepted patterns, you'd have very minimal sex differences." No one can tell which psychological differences are immutable until social expectations are equal...