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...system of Athletic facilities expanded outside the Soldiers Field area in 1979 when President Horner and a selected committee recommended a $2.4 million gym at Observatory Hill, near the Quad. The complex added further to the facilities available for recreational athletics, and includes a gym, a weight room and six squash courts "I was very supportive of that effort, "Reardon said. "I think it's great to have a facility up there...
...puts added responsibility on Horner, as titular head of the institution, to speak out for Radcliffe and the women's issues it largely represents-to lobby for Radcliffe's interests. When the Radcliffe Forum was eliminated two springs ago. Horner's voice was conspicuously quiet. As long as she has chosen to express herself on the foreign policy questions of U.S. arms sales, more aggressive advocacy on the home front does not seem unreasonable...
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS have a heavy responsibility to speak out--not only on education issues, but also other concerns. They carry, however, an equally weighty duty to speak as informed educators, to avoid appearing to have succumbed to crass lobbying efforts or to have acted before thinking. Matina Horner correctly dissociated her stance from Radcliffe. But given the inevitable connection between an institution and its leader in the public eye, she bore a heavy responsibility to appear thoughtful...
...Matina Horner's willingness to speak out on the AWACS sale also raises questions about her priorities. Under her guidance, Radcliffe has become a crew team, a theater, a fund drive, and a press office. That decline is not her fault; it is the largely inevitable result of the "merger non-merger...
...Sunday of every Freshman Week, President Horner advises incoming Yardlings to take Hellman's advice and "keep cool but do not freeze." The AWACS telex incident suggests that she might do well to add "Look before you leap" to her repertoire of useful maxims. Advocacy in the interests of raising the level of public debate befits a University president well But posturing in the absence of expertise does no one any good...