Radcliffe Seniors Plan Picket At Commencement Exercises

About 40 Radcliffe senior women representing the various Houses met in Phillips Brooks House last night to organize a Commencement demonstration in support of equal status for women at Harvard.

The general demands agreed upon were: equal admissions, better job opportunities for women, equal pay, better facilities and equal access to prizes and facilities.

Interminable Debate

Both sex-blind admissions and 1:1 sex ratios are encompassed by the demand for equal admissions. No single option was decided upon in order to avoid complicating the issue with what one woman called "inevitable, interminable debate." The better job opportunity and equal pay demands are inclusive of all female employees of Harvard.

The group particularly stressed support for the printers' strike as one of the most significant manifestations of women's oppression at Harvard.

The women unanimously endorsed the use of armbands and backdrops as viable forms of protest. The question of whether the women should also organize a separate march was debated at length, however.

Naysayers

The naysayers said they were concerned that a small turnout of women marchers, set visibly apart from a large body of women clad in armbands, would give an appearance of divisiveness to the women's protest.

After further debate, the women voted to organize a separate march as an expression of women's solidarity for all women who will participate in Commencement exercises.