Panelists complained that they shouldn't have to lobby administrators for what they feel are basic needs.

"We're supposed to be in classes being brilliant," Bagneris said. "I'm not supposed to be designing peer relations programs. I'm perfectly willing to do them, but we want to be taken seriously."

Karteron said RUS is specifically urging a hybrid of the University Health Services and the LCR. The center would be a "safe space" for rape survivors to spend the night, in addition to a general forum for the discussion of women's issues.

Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said such women's center would violate College against self-segrega- tion.

"Our stance on a women's center is like ourstance on a minority students or multiculturalstudents' center," he wrote in an e-mail messageyesterday. "The Houses are the focus of studentlife here, and we do not support the creation ofseparate gathering spaces for the exclusive use ofspecial sub-populations of the College."

Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery'87 said she was "saddened" to hear theseundergraduates felt Harvard was unresponsive totheir needs.

"We have really been listening," she said."There was a lot more Harvard bashing than wasreally necessary. There are women [at the College]who have found the nourishing and the nurturingthey need."

Lewis, who attended only part of the panel,said he didn't feel any new issues were raised.

"Most of what I heard in the student panel onFriday had been said already in [an] open letterin The Crimson last year," he wrote.

Alums who attended the panel said they weregreatly concerned by the student's condemnation ofHarvard's treatment of women.

"It's very hard to keep this kind of movementgoing, but it's so obvious that there's still aneed." said one alum. "What you're saying aboutclass and section is exactly what we felt in the'60s."

Students said hearing that alum experiencedsimilar struggles as undergraduates wasmeaningful.

"It's reassuring in a terrible but alsocamaraderie-instilling way to hear that the powersthat be at Harvard and Radcliffe have pulled someof the same unsettling and unacceptable moves onthem," wrote Milikowsky in an e-mail message.

And alums said they were particularly concernedto hear that Radcliffe is rapidly losingprominence in the lives of undergraduates.

"Most undergraduates don't know who LindaWilson is and don't know that Radcliffe has apresident," Milikowsky told the audience.

President of Radcliffe Linda S. Wilson said shecould not respond to the student's concernsbecause she was not present at Friday's panel, anabsence for which she was criticized during herappearance the next day.