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After four league contests for each team, the Ivy standings read like the disparate income brackets of the haves and have nots in Iran under the Shah...
Lobbying in Washington may not be the most genteel profession, but in these days of federal support for education, it's become a fact of life. No longer can women's colleges like Radcliffe--or any college for that matter--sit back and watch the government's wheels slowly grind on, crushing federal aid programs in clammy bureaucratic jaws. Many colleges, including the nations' 125 womens' institutions, have grown increasingly dependent on federal funds. And when the government begins to tug on the institutional purse strings, administrators run from their Ivy towers to catch the next shuttle to Washington...
...Sharp '68, director of the Women's College Coalition, a Washington-based amalgam of 67 single-sex institutions, agrees with Shavlik's assessment. The coalition, says Sharp, needs "to spearhead a better understanding of what the positive elements" of women's colleges are. Sharp says that her group would "like to have women's institutions consulted regularly when the government makes decisions," but for now, that just doesn't happen...
Radcliffe does not have its own office of government or community affairs, nor does it have staff people who, like the people in Grays Hall, do nothing but lobby for Harvard. When Radcliffe has a point to make, officials have one of two options. As spokesmen for many of the Seven Sisters say, the best bet is to put the college president on the phone. Horner says that, given a specific issue, she doesn't hesitate to pick up the phone and call Patricia R. Harris, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). Contacting the political people...
However, in most cases, Radcliffe and other women's colleges get their views known through groups of universities and colleges with established names in Washington. Burton I. Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe who handles some of the college's federal contacts, says that Radcliffe, like many small colleges, goes through consortia such as the American Council on Education. Radcliffe also lets the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities do some of its work, and Horner, at one time or another, has sat on the boards of similar groups...