Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Full Harvard-Radcliffe merger, still a distant possibility, poses the threat of job layoffs for many of the 185 members of Radcliffe's chapter of the International Building Service Employees Union...
...MERGER" has already been approved by the Radcliffe Trustees and the Harvard Corporation. Only the Board of Overseers has yet to approve the measure, and it is expected it will do so at its March 8 meeting. Meanwhile, many Harvard men, often the very ones who were initially hostile to the whole coed invasion, now greedily clamor that their respective Houses be granted a token complement of women. And the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life is threatening to respond with an 8:1 total coed plan that would spread women through the dining halls like a thin pate...
Even under the pretense of a Harvard-Radcliffe "non-merger" marriage, Radcliffe will become simply a different sort of maidservant. Where Radcliffe administrators had hoped that maintaining a degree of institutional autonomy would secure women a base from which to press their demands on a recalcitrant university, it is now clear that Harvard has discovered the loophole that frees the College from facing up to the legal inevitability of equal admissions. By retaining control over admissions policy and financial aids, the reconstituted Radcliffe College-a "college" without its own administration, faculty or funds-will simply serve as a delivery service...
MEANWHILE, co-residential living-the issue that ignited the temporarily stalled drive towards merger in the first place-remains an immediate problem. The CHUL proposal to distribute consenting women evenly throughout the Houses has gained few adherents. A recent poll conducted by the Radcliffe Union of Students condemned the proposal overwhelmingly. To isolate a group of 40 women in a building housing a few hundred men would prevent the women from establishing their own independent identity and would negate whatever effects they, as a group, could have on House life...
...South House Committee wishes to express its very strong disapproval of the housing regulations expressed in the non-merger. We request that the administration refrain from hastily applying these regulations. We also ask the administration to make a clear statement of these regulations so that students may study them and express their opinions...