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a doctor. It's like counseling. I tell them I'm sure they can cope with this, and I tell them who to call. But I get hesitant feelings sometimes. . .we try to do so much."

Even within the Building, the pressure to be all things merely to all the women present sometimes makes tempers short. The graphics lab, for example, is before all else a teaching facility, which means it is not organized to operate as a mass-production print shop. Yet Helen Roth and Sheila de Bretteville, the FSW faculty responsible for the graphics lab, are constantly bombarded with requests to print a book, a magazine, vast thousands of copies of a leaflet. "Sometimes," says Sheila, "I think that if one more person says 'The Building Should . . .,' I'll scream."

The answer to "the Building should" comes from Judy Reidel: "The Woman's Building is an accessible space which people can use to get done what they care about. There always has to be someone to initiate whatever it is. Someone has to want to do it, and then it gets done."