mythmom
February 6, 2008, 9:08am
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<p>I really wasn’t short changing Sarah Lawrence. After Barnard it was D’s top choice and she had to really work to be admitted.</p>
<p>I just thought it might be a fit for cuz. </p>
<p>Actually, as I said, I think Smith is her best option. She can go hat in hand, oops, made a mistake. Want to come.</p>
<p>Not to beat a dead horse, or to imply that Wikipedia is a credible source, but:</p>
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Wikipedia:
Political involvement and activism </p>
<p>Political activism has played a crucial role in forming the spirit of the Sarah Lawrence community since the early years of the College. As early as 1938, students were volunteering in working-class sections of Yonkers, New York to help bring equality and educational opportunities to poor and minority citizens, and the Sarah Lawrence College War Board, organized by students in the fall of 1942, sought to aid troops fighting in World War II. During a time when the College’s enrollment consisted of only 293 students, 204 signed up as volunteers during the first week of the War Board.[8] During the so-called McCarthy Years, a number of Sarah Lawrence’s faculty members were accused by the American Legion of being sympathetic to the Communist Party, and were called before the Jenner Committee.[9] Since that time, activism has played a central role in student life, with movements for civil rights and against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and for student and faculty diversity in the 1980s. Also in the 1960s, students established an Upward Bound program for students from lower-income and poverty areas to prepare for college.[10] Theatre Outreach, the Child Development Institute, the Empowering Teachers Program, the Community Writers program, the Office of Community Partnership and the Fulbright High School Writers Program are among the many programs founded the since the 1970s to provide services to the larger community. In the late 1980s, students occupied Westlands, the main administrative building for the campus, in a sit-in for wider diversity. Students have remained active in recent years, with numerous organizations and movements sprouting in response to the Iraq War. For many years, the College has been considered as being at the vanguard of the sexual rights movement.
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mythmom
February 6, 2008, 10:23am
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<p>Credible enough to convince us that Sarah Lawrence is an incredible place. (Haha.) But I already knew that (see winky face, no obnoxiousness intended.)</p>