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...Trustee who acknowledges the anomaly between the negative undergraduate perception of Radcliffe and the Board's insistence on its renewed vitality is Matina S. Horner, Radcliffe's president. "Before I became president, all I knew about Radcliffe was that as a teacher I got two sheets for grades at the end of the semester and all the grades for women went on one that said 'Radcliffe,'" she says. Horner believes Radcliffe's identity became even more confusing when coresidency was established in 1971, and as most Harvard opportunities opened to women. But she insists the fog has been clearing since...
...most important influence of Radcliffe on undergraduate life, according to Lyman, is Horner's increased clout in policymaking decisions since the 1977 clarifying agreement. "We (the Board) are all here to support her, and Matina is heard. She's got to be heard." Horner now sits in on many of Harvard's policymaking committees--but she's quick to distinguish between policy-and decision-making. "Policy's not day-to-day management," she notes, "but it's now clearer that Radcliffe is not under Harvard but has an equal responsibility for its students...
...Horner also believes that Radcliffe's duty to fulfill its first mandate is not over yet. "If equal access to a Harvard education means becoming one of the boys--if it's an end and not a means--then that's not what we want. Radcliffe cannot be absorbed, assimilated or co-opted into the pie, it's got to add another piece to it. And that's an ongoing process...
...development of Harvard policy as sufficient justification for its identity as Harvard's college for undergraduate women. It admits that more modifications will be necessary if Radcliffe's rebound is to succeed. But administrators also believe that undergraduates can be proud of their affiliation with the college now. As Horner puts it, "Some Radcliffe women say they're from Harvard because they don't feel equal saying 'Radcliffe.' That's like immigrants to the United States changing their names. If you have to change your identity, you don't feel equal. Women here must learn that 'Radcliffe' means Harvard...
...Horner praised the senior class for "questioning ethical issues within and without Harvard Square...