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One of Bunting-Smith's fighting points duringher tenure concerned study space for students atRadcliffe. In 1966, Hilles Library opened in theQuad as a replacement for the smaller library forstudents located in Radcliffe Yard.
Bunting-Smith's vision of a building that wouldbring students and Faculty together to promotelearning and exchange ideas was realized with theconstruction of the unique building design ofarchitect Max Abramowitz. His alcove arrangement,according to Kemple, was meant to bring studentscloser together with the books of the library.
At the end of her presidency, Bunting-Smith wasoccasionally the victim of the unrest andrebellion that characterized the Harvard andRadcliffe student bodies in the late 1960s.
In December 1968, Bunting-Smith was forced tofly back from a conference in North Carolina tomeet with black student protesters who weredemanding minimum quotas for the admission ofblack students into future Radcliffe classes. By1969, chaos reigned at Harvard and an abbreviatedsit-in took place in the Radcliffe president'soffice.F-19BUNTING-SMITHCrimson File...
Last fall, the leaders of Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library, Bunting Institute, Murray Research Center and Public Policy Institute began holding regular meetings to discuss ways for the often-insular arms of the college to collaborate.