Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bunting has favored merger also for the financial benefits it will bring badly impoverished Radcliffe...
...emphasis at Radcliffe in recent years has been one of trying to get the male administration and student body to change their attitudes towards women. She was instrumental in proposing merger two years ago because at that time it seemed the only way to achieve coresidential housing. "The most important thing in the housing change is the attitudes of men. Where they get to know girls, they learn and change," she said...
Some students have recently been calling for a closer to equal male-female ration than the present four-to-one. Bunting has seen this demand as secondary and possibly detrimental to the primary goal of merger. The strong Harvard opposition to an equal ratio was one of the major reasons for the not-complete-merger plan just approved: legally, the two institutions are still separate. If ever an equal rights amendment is added to the state or federal constitution, it would not apply to an equal admissions policy because these functions will be kept separate under the new contract...
After that, things got better. People became interested in merger, and politics became less tense. "This year, it seems that people are less active politically," she said recently...
Edwards's statement came after the results of an RUS poll conducted last Thursday and Friday were tabulated. RUS questioned all Radcliffe students as well as men living at Radcliffe about the CHUL's plan and Radcliffe's new "non-merger merger" relationship with Harvard...