Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single most important reason for merger at this time is financial. According to Harriet B. Belin, Director of Radcliffe Admissions, "It is the only solution to our financial pickle." Radcliffe is facing a projected deficit of close to a million dollars for 1971-1972. Her alumnae annual giving is down 30 per cent this year as compared to last. Radcliffe will save a great deal of money be eliminating its separate administration of housing, buildings and grounds, and dean's offices. Another important consideration was Radcliffe's staff which has been patient and long-suffering through two years of uncertainty...
Students and alumnae wonder whether it is worth "selling out" to Harvard without first safeguarding specific female interests such as more women on the faculty, equal admissions policy, the Radclie Institute, and day-care. They question the necessity for immediate merger and propose alternatives such as an outright gift from Harvard, cut-backs on tuition, and even the use of capital funds. They point out that Harvard's financial situation is also precarious and that the every-tub-on-its-own-bottom philosophy is not applicable to Radcliffe. As one alumna wrote to Gilbert, "I am unimpressed with the financial...
...final merger report recommends...
...MANY critics of the new merger plan oppose it because they feel Radcliffe has won no significant concessions from Harvard. Economic security is not enough, they say, to justify the destruction of Radcliffe as a separate institution. As Deborah Batts '68, former president of RUS, put it: "This is the last poker game Radcliffe will play with Harvard -if they don't drive a hard bargain now, they never will. I don't think Radcliffe girls will get anything out of this plan. But they will give up Radcliffe's flexibility and personableness for an impersonal bureaucracy...
Radcliffe administrators, on the other hand, are optimistic. Bunting has asked that students be patient and give the new merger plan a chance to work. "Harvard has given evidence of a serious commitment to women. Although they are facing real financial problems themselves, they have been willing to take on this extra responsibility. We must have faith in Harvard to be concerned with women and faith in Radcliffe to push for what they want." In addition, Bunting, Gilbert and Belin have all warned against negative consequences should women students push for too many concessions at this time. "When Harvard...