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...least two facts about last week's news are cause for skepticism. The first is that the "merger" was negotiated in complete secrecy. Even the Radcliffe staff was informed of the college's fate only last week. The Harvard and Radcliffe communities were presented with a fait accompli. And nobody likes those. Last Wednesday could have represented the culmination of a year-long campus-wide discussion on what is best for Radcliffe. Instead, we got a gleeful announcement from the top: "Hey, guys," they seemed to be saying. "Look what we did! Isn't it great>" Time will tell...
...second cause for skepticism about the merger is that Wilson is steeping down. If the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is a step in the right direction, why doesn't Wilson want to be its leader? She told reporters last week that she is ready for a new project. Isn't the new Radcliffe a good...
Saturday's Presidents' Welcome in the Science Center did little to clear up that confusion. Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson discussed Tuesday's merger but offered the overflow crowd few specifics about the institute Radcliffe will become--mainly because many details, including the future ofundergraduate programs, have not yet beendetermined...
Wilson said that women need not be concernedabout the merger: "In terms of opportunity,there's no less--indeed there's multiplying ofopportunity...
Bhatt said she hopes the merger will encourage Harvard to take responsibility for its female students, by, for example, funding groups focused on women's issues...