Word: groupness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fall of 1975. "Radcliffe's committee did not dissolve into Harvard's or vice versa." Fitzsimmons says. Indeed, the similarities in the operations of the separate committees led to few changes after the merger. The major difference occurred in the female applicant pool, as a larger and more diverse group of women applied...
...Joint Budget Committee, however, was not long for this world. About six years later, in the midst of the reconsideration of relations between the two colleges, the Committee disappeared--with a minimum of fanfare--superceded by the Joint Policy Committee. The new group--composed of Presidents Bok and Horner, various Radcliffe Trustees and Harvard Corporation members and other administrators--drew up the 1977 agreement. And then it went into retirement...
...many people around campus, of course, knew that the policy committee existed, much less had been given a new lease on life. The Committee's mandate, save one portion, was very vague. The 1977 agreement assigned the group four basic functions...
Translated, all this means that the committee handles problems that are either too big or too vague to be handled by normal administrative channels. The group's membership, drawing together the major officers from both Harvard and Radcliffe, separates it from the run-of-the-mill University committee. The Joint Policy Committee is, in essence, the last resort--the place where the buck may finally stop on the long and tortuous administrative path. "It's really there to settle thorny problems." says senior corporation member Francis H. Burr '35 who sits on the committee. "I like to think...
...group that hasn't met for a couple of years, all of its members are on pretty good terms. And they all agree that the reason they haven't sat down together is because there's been nothing to discuss. "The reason it hasn't met is that it hasn't had any business," says Dean Rosovsky. "There haven't been any problems that couldn't be resolved in the normal administrative way," says...