Signs of "Women's Lib"

In one of the first evidences that women's liberation sentiments do exist at Dartmouth and are attempting to gently nudge the establishment into considering more thoroughly the status of women on campus, three faculty members, after first securing President Kemeny's endorsement, have presented a series of proposals aimed at improving the academic status of women on the Dartmouth faculty.

Mrs. Marilyn Baldwin, lecturer in English, Mrs. Jeanne Prosser, lecturer in history, and Miss Florence Yudin, assistant professor of romance languages, presented the proposals, which grew out of a caucus of female teachers and administrators of the College, Tuck School, Thayer School, and the Medical School, to Dean of Faculty Lawrence Harvey, Provost Leonard Rieser, and Assistant Provost William Durant.

The general nature of the proposals, as described by Mrs. Prosser, is to make the academic status of women equal to that of male faculty members and to regularize the faculty appointments of women who have often been subject to vague contracts and last-minute hiring practices. Although the proposals were received with general favor by the administrators, Mrs. Baldwin pointed out that final implementation would rely on each of the academic departments which have hiring autonomy.