Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson is to be congratulated on its excellent straightforward editorial "The Time is Right for Merger." As one who for years has fought "the sexual discrimination that pervades this university" I have testified before the Ways and Means Committee in Washington (May 1973) to show that women pay a disporportionately high share of the taxes and that tax exempt institutions like Harvard do not pay: women are the largest lowest paid group in the U.S. today and as such proportionately pay the highest taxes. Women therefore are compelled to finance their own exclusion from education at tax exempt institutions like...
...hail your editorial and plans for merger as the first straight talk about this sordid matter. Indeed I urge you to politicize this important issue and organize students, faculty and staff and all university members who believe in equality to see this matter through at long last and finally lay to rest this sorry Watergate episode of the university. Fran P. Hosken, Women's International Network
President Bok's reaction to Amherst's announcement would be funnier if easy-going acceptance of sexual discrimination didn't have such serious consequences. "Harvard's progress toward merger or toward equality" can't be measured by Harvard's sex ratio, Bok said, without attempting to suggest a more appropriate measure...
Maintaining the size of the College has consistently been the item traded off in favor of equalizing sex ratios. Comments made by administrators and members of the Strauch Committee, which is considering male and female admissions in preparation for next spring's merger negotiations, indicate that this is again likely to be the case: estimates of the possible increase range from 5 to 10 per cent...
...insisting that at least two U.S.-flag airlines serve each major overseas route. The CAB favors the agreement in general, but it still must approve the details. On the other hand, if the swaps come off, they could mark a long step toward a full Pan Am-TWA merger. So far, the two lines have been cool toward marriage, despite prodding by the Ford Administration, but they are continuing to explore the proposal...