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...need it has risen as well. Reliance upon student employment represents a realization by both the University and the students that Harvard will not bear the burden of increasing costs alone; students get the money and Harvard gets the service. And students seem willing to take the jobs. Lyman notes, "There are people who can do it. We have more people applying and more people here than ever before. That has got to mean something." With a tenuous balance among University, federal and student funds, a Harvard education remains within the reach of most qualified applicants. But maintaining those opportunities...
Radcliffe's desire to regain financial control was a major reason it insisted on the 1977 agreement. Lyman explains, "When you fold your corporation into another corporation, it's over--you eliminate any power you have. And Harvard had other uses for our money." Harvard may not, for example, feel the same urgency about maintaining Radcliffe's Bunting Institute or its Data Resource center, both of which provide opportunities for women's studies research...
...obvious change in Radcliffe is a bureaucratic one. While the Harvard Corporation seems to prefer a low profile, the Radcliffe Trustees are actively soliciting student and community input. Student representatives attend the four annual Board meetings and the Board sends representatives to neighborhood council meetings in Cambridge, Susan Storey Lyman '49, chairman of the Board, says Radcliffe feels a strong need to avoid the "town-gown" problem characteristic of the relationship between Harvard and Cambridge. "We've learned from Harvard's mistakes," she says...
Radcliffe's Board of Trustees consciously tries to avoid imitating Harvard's two main administrative bodies. Unlike Harvard, Radcliffe prefers to nominate Trustees who will not need to travel large distances to get to meetings or who do not have very time-consuming jobs. Lyman, who like the other members of the board receives no compensation for her work, says, "It's a very expensive job, but there's work to be done. The Harvard Overseers just haven't got time to do the really gritty work...
...despite the progress Radcliffe has made in remolding its administration and allocating its money, its effectiveness as an institution for undergraduates remains in doubt. Although its projects may be excellent, their bearing on undergraduate life seems minimal at best. Lyman admits that Radcliffe's programs seem more prominent outside the campus--"the freshman might not know we exist at all." She insists, however, that the Board is trying to concentrate on improving undergraduate life by building the athletic center at the Quad, channeling money into an Office for the Arts, and sponsoring speakers in a Radcliffe Forum program, among other...