Word: mergers
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Those who oppose the new merger plan base their objections on the plan's failure to face the issue of an equal sex admissions policy at Harvard. Chase Peterson's Faculty Committee
...Admissions and Merger reported last March that there would be no change in the ratio of women to men. It claimed that a reduction in male admissions would reduce diversity at Harvard and that an increase in female enrollment would lead to an undesirable enlargement of the student body. Peterson's Committee warned, however, "We are worried by the suggestion that such issues as an equal sex admission ratio and total size of the undergraduate enrollment can be waken up piecemeal after the fact of a legal merger...
Many students would like to see the issue resolved before Radcliffe gives up her separate identity. They assume that Radcliffe students are in better bargaining positions with Harvard now than they would be when the contract becomes official. Many feel that merger will give women even less of a voice than they now have...
...chairman of the Graduate Women's Organization said, "is the attempt to freeze the issue for four years." Many undergraduates express similar fears. They feel that Harvard is postponing the equal admissions issue until 1975 when the contract can be renewed. Many students want the issues of merger and equal admissions to be of immediate concern to the new President. The final report, however, disagrees: "The new Harvard President will be faced with many critical problems at the outset of his administration and it is not in the best interests of Radcliffe or Harvard that he should be forced...
...change Harvard's discriminatory polices toward women. Not until Harvard recognizes Radcliffe women as full and legitimate members of the undergraduate community will there be any possibility of admission reform. As Caroline Bynum, Assistant Professor of History, put it, "The power base is not Radcliffe-but women." Hopefully, this merger plan will be a concrete step towards the recognition of women as equals in the Harvard community. With the administrative merger of Harvard and Radcliffe, women will be able to address themselves to the problems of discrimination in their capacity as Harvard -not Radcliffe-undergraduates...