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Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and then member of a committee on the admissions and financial aid aspects of the merger, did not believe in hasty Faculty action either. He advised that all decisions on future relationships between Harvard and Radcliffe "be deferred until all considerations pro and con from both communities have been heard." Bunting also opposed the Faculty making a decisive statement on the merger. "It would be premature for this Faculty to take any action at this time that would limit the options," she warned...
...Faculty did debate--somewhat--the effects of a one-to-one female ratio, which the administration had predicted as a possible outcome of the merger. Though no Faculty member explicitly opposed the merger--with the exception of what Ford calls a few "curmudgeonly old misogynists"--many professors worried that the push to balance the ratio could force a decrease in the number of male applicants accepted. Reducing the male student body spelled disaster to Pusey who declared at the February Faculty meeting: "Call this male chauvinist if you like. There are many people here who would be unhappy...
Some Strauch committee members voiced concern that Harvard alumni would object to reductions in the number of men and that Radcliffe alumnae would object to the combined process as just another example of the "Jonah concept"--Harvard swallowing up Radcliffe. But those objections never materialized. "I haven't heard of anyone who was upset," Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean for special projects and a member of the Strauch Committee, says...
Helen Suzman, a member of the opposition party of the South African Parliament, says the "damned nerve" of Harvard students who called her a "white puppet" and demonstrated while she spoke Tudesday at the Kennedy School of Government surprises...
...member of the Progressive Federal Party for more than 25 years, Suzman says Western corporations "must stay and be an influence for the positive good" in South Africa by adhering to the Sullivan principles, guidelines proposed by the Rev. Leon Sullivan regulating hiring and employment practices...