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The future is coming and Radcliffe's Bunting Institute has heard its clarion call. The Bunting Institute may be losing some of its flavor as a research institute for women by including men, but it will be gaining a powerful partner in Harvard--if and when a merger happens.
By opening its doors to men, the institute is taking the high ground on the issue of gender discrimination. The days of sex-based exclusion on the part of both Harvard and Radcliffe are long over. Gone are the days when Lamont was closed to Cliffies, and the Bunting Institute...
"I think that the Bunting is such a strongprogram on its own," Ferentz says. "Even though itwas started as a Radcliffe thing, I think it canmaintain its own identity."
Even with the change, the Bunting could remainvirtually all-female. Kilson, for one, doesn'texpect to the institute to be inundated withapplications from men clamoring to be admitted.
But even if no men choose to apply for theBunting, changing admissions policies will helpthe institute stay on the right side of thelaw--and might bring the Harvard-Radcliffenegotiations one step closer to a final deal.Harvard News OfficeBUNTING IN TRANSITION:RITA NAKASHIMABROCK, director of Radcliffe's Bunting Institute,says concerns...