Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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University Hall, at the time, seemed to offer (along with the strife) a good deal of promise and initiative. Chief issues, aside from the pervasive demonstration issues, were merger and educational reform, and U-Hall was in the proper vanguard. Now, by contrast, students seem routinely treated as distant and foreign by an administration which seems more concerned with cost and efficiency than anything else...
...through a combined admissions office in time for the Class of 1980, are still landmark steps for the Harvard-Radcliffe community. If they are approved by the Faculty, the Governing Boards of Harvard and the Radcliffe Trustees, both institutions will have finally taken the steps that make total corporate merger and the eventual equality of women inevitable. Progress toward these two goals will undoubtedly continue to be all too slow, but the Strauch proposals would at least commit Harvard to a program that must eventually have equality as its outcome...
...effective steps to reach these goals the committee chose only to set bounds to gradually ensure the attainment of them someday in the all too distant future. The Strauch Committee recommendations demonstrate that equality for women at Harvard will only come after continued struggle and concerted action and that merger will only occur after Radcliffe has been gradually stripped of everything that made it a separate educational institution...
While the Strauch report is creating its splash (see story above), corporate merger of Harvard and Radcliffe seems to be turning into a non-issue for this year. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University said this week that there may be no new, official statement or change in the basic merger agreement for the rest of the year--or, for that matter, for the next couple of years...
...question this spring may just become whether the Trustees (and the Radcliffe administration) are willing to sacrifice this at a time when they need every bargaining position they can get in the merger talks...