Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the AHA professes to favor equal access, it obviously sees equal access as merely the merging of two admissions operations into one and adding a few more women to the student body. This is one of the biggest problems with the Strauch "report itself: everyone who reads the report and who is sold on the idea of equal access envisions something different...
Although he refused to promise the AHA that there will be no cuts in male admissions. President Bok, in addressing the meeting, did not appear too anxious to set the record straight on just what "equal access" is supposed to mean...
Instead, Bok took some of the heat off himself and Karl Strauch, professor of Physics and chairman of the Strauch Committee, by assuring the AHA that equal access will probably not result in a substantial shuffling of undergraduate ratios for at least its first three years anyway...
...rhetoric about supporting equal access, the AHA and especially members of the Schools and Scholarships Committee seem more intent on assuring alumni and prospective male applicants around the country that fair Harvard will not decrease their "dockets." In fact, sources said this week. Peter D. Schultz '52, general secretary of the AHA, has already mailed out The Crimson account of the AHA meeting to an irate alumnus as proof that men will continue to receive priority even under "equal access...
Mary I. Bunting, former President of Radcliffe, said yesterday that the University's plan to merge Harvard and Radcliffe's admission offices shows "real leadership in the field" of equal male-female access to educational institutions...