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Students and alumnae wonder whether it is worth "selling out" to Harvard without first safeguarding specific female interests such as more women on the faculty, equal admissions policy, the Radclie Institute, and day-care. They question the necessity for immediate merger and propose alternatives such as an outright gift from Harvard, cut-backs on tuition, and even the use of capital funds. They point out that Harvard's financial situation is also precarious and that the every-tub-on-its-own-bottom philosophy is not applicable to Radcliffe. As one alumna wrote to Gilbert, "I am unimpressed with the financial...
...meeting, one alumna expressed disappointment that undergraduates were not included in the petition, and suggested that they circulate their own. Another suggested that an ad hoc solution be tried before legalizing a corporate solution. No one suggested changing the 4:1 Harvard-Radcliffe ratio...
...press was Ali McGraw. She spent the first half-hour seated at a corner table and surrounded by six editors of the Wellesley News. It looked as if the entire staff had shown up to interview her, and one of the girls told me, "She's our most famous alumna since Madame Chiang Kai-shek." Prettier, too, I thought, but the editor sniffed, "Oh, I don't know, she looks thirty...
Although representatives of the club said on Wednesday that they would state they were opposed to Boll's practice of exclusion of women, their testimony reportedly rested on the technicality of Paul's status as an alumna...
Boll, on the other hand, said, "The whole problem is whether it's discriminatory for a private non-profit organization to be under the Commis-sion's jurisdiction." He added that he had information that Paul was not officially an alumna because she had not filed out forms after her one-year program that would have listed her among the alumni...