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...James E. Shapiro '68 is one of the myriads who started running in those heady days of the new exercise ethic. But as a true-blue '60s radical and one of those impassioned individualists who refuses to comply with the limits society sets on its fads and trends, Shapiro didn't restrict his jaunts to the conventional distances of ten or fifteen miles or even the marathon. Rather, Shapiro joined up with that elite--some say insane--class that has aptly labeled itself "ultrarunners...
Students at the University of Pennsylvania have been able to major in women's studies since 1975, according to Dr. Joan P. Shapiro, associate director of the women's studies program Shapiro says the program is a direct out growth of a sit in at College Hall in 1972 by women protesting perceived university indifference in the wake of a recent rape on campus. The protest led to the founding of the Women's Center, originally concerned only with security, which began eventually to teach courses. The women's studies program now teaches some courses of its own, and sponsors...
Although students can major solely in women's studies. Shapiro notes. "We tend to stress dual majors, because it seems to make a lot of sense." Shapiro says that contrary to images other may have of women's studies students as politically motivated or concerned only with abstractions, these students often regard women studies as pre-professional. In particular, she said many students who double major in women's studies are planing careers in gynecology or divorce...
...Irwin I. Shapiro Lexington, Mass...
...have emigrated to the United States include David Kazhdan, professor of Mathematics at Harvard; Kac, of MIT; Boris Moischezon and Gregory Chudnovsky of Columbia University; Boris Weisfeiler and L.N. Vaserstein of Pennsylvania State University; Mikhael Gromov of the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and IIya Piaketakii-Shapiro of Yale University...