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Familiarity, said Aesop, breeds contempt. Maybe in ancient Greece, but not at Byerly Hall, where in 1973, the Harvard and Radcliffe adminissions committees found themselves happily operating side by side under the same roof. They became so chummy that within little more than a year, they had merged into one Harvard-Radcliffe Office of Admissions and Financial Aid in order to put into effect the new equal access policy...
During the 1973-74 academic year Harvard and Radcliffe moved their separate admissions committees into adjacent offices in Byerly Hall--Harvard occupied one side of the building and Radcliffe the other, sharing only the reception area. The committees also worked together that year to jointly-produce a pamphlet of information for prospective students, process applications from all foreign students, and visit high schools...
Although some staff members on both sides of Byerly Hall expressed fears that "particular kinds of expertise and values would be lost in a combined office," Fitzsimmons says as the staffs became more familiar with each other "the majority really looked forward to the combination with excitement over dealing with the other half of the population...
Through congeniality and cooperation in Byerly Hall, the committee became one in the 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...
What would force the committee to meet? Bok suggests that if "we wanted to make some substantial change in Radcliffe buildings," he would call a meeting of the Joint Policy Committee. But nothing has come up. The South House dining hall received approval prior to May 1977, Wolfman says, and the Radcliffe Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center is on property not under the committee's jurisdiction...