And Janet M. Martin, assistant professor of Classics, said, "There are people who on principle want women's status improved, but get very nervous when they see the machinery."
"The wording will be broadly questioned, but I don't think anyone is out to subvert the report," Bailyn said. "There are many implications to be tought out." He said there had been "a lot of talk" among Faculty members, but no kind of lobbying or organizational splitting-"there's no ideological division here."
Gleason, a known opponent of the legislation as it stands, also said that he knows of no counter-resolutions. "There's very little in the report that represents any real change." he said. "As the dean says, there's hardly anything that I can't do myself."
Objections to the report-in addition to the word "must"-center around the role of a standing committee, the part-time professorships, and the part-time graduate students. Only the pregnancy leave escapes opposition.
"I don't think anybody is going to fight motherhood," Handlin said.