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...truth is that the 1971 arrangement has caused Horner much more trouble in her dealings with both the Faculty and the University than she had expected. And she frequently has had to draw on both her patience and sense of humor to cope with it. It's taken four years of haggling about the language and terms of the non-merger merger agreement--until last spring--before Harvard and Radcliffe could start negotiating the shape of Radcliffe's future. Unlike many people on the Radcliffe side of the negotiations, Horner does not attribute the four-year delay to any maliciousness...
...Radcliffe trustees could not develop a sense of trust that the Faculty would care for women undergraduates" because of the disagreements over the '71 arrangement. Horner says. But she believes the distance between the positions of Harvard and Radcliffe had "grown out of a terrific misunderstandings rather than malice...
Although fault for the four years of dickering and Radcliffe's identity crisis cannot be directly attributed to Horner's leadership, her role as prime spokesman for the trustees and the institution reflects badly on her administration in the eyes of the Harvard community...
...unsurprising that Horner's behind-the-scenes negotiating technique has left many Harvard observers whispering that Radcliffe has nothing to do. This belief has some logic since Horner, albeit well known on the national scene, is rarely heard from in her own backyard. As one long-time Harvard observer put it, "Most people on this side of the Common have no reason to know the president of Radcliffe...From what anyone can gather, Radcliffe has spent the last four years deciding whether freshmen should live in the Quad and that's a pretty petty issue...
More than a few people in University Hall, the Faculty's nerve center, confess to being baffled by the vagueness of Horner's job. They know she has an office on the first floor of University Hall but they're not sure what she does there or what she wants. And since Horner symbolizes Radcliffe, that institution appears equally vague...