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Women Will Unite In Strike Today, But Boston NOW Is Opposing Action

Nancy Nathan, a staffer for the Cambridge Women's Group, said that Cambridge will not have any strike activities or rallies today since Boston NOW is "so opposed to the strike."

Mary Sue Hennifen '76, co-chairperson of the Radcliffe-Harvard Women's Group, said, "It would be tremendous if all Radcliffe women struck," but added, "They won't because NOW's publicity campaign has been so poor."

Boston NOW did not wage a "massive media campaign" about the strike because of internal division on whether or not it should support the action, Deanna Lackaff, vice president for public relations of Boston NOW, said yesterday.

But students at Harvard, as well as faculty and administrators, should show support for the strike in individual ways, including refusing to be consumers and holding discussion groups on sex discrimination in faculty hiring, Lackaff said.

Women should show they object to being "second-class" citizens in any way, they want to, Lackaff said.

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Undergraduates--both male and female--contacted by The Crimson last night were mostly unaware of the strike, but were mostly in sympathy with its purpose.

Several women who are clerical workers at the Graduate School of Design said yesterday they will strike to demonstrate their support "of the movement' and to "raise consciousness" on women's issues.

Ralph B. Bennett, assistant professor of Architecture, where employees said they will strike, said he "absolutely endorses the women because the cause is so just and the remedy so tolerable."

An assistant to President Horner said yesterday that the Radcliffe president had planned a regular day and does not expect to participate in the strike

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