Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Merger implies there's something valuable on both sides," Cervilla says. "But in athletics, Harvard decided that its system was the best and plugged Radcliffe into...
Cervilla's assessment comes close to a comment that Baaron B. Pittenger, Watson's right-hand man, uses to sum up the merger: "It's like having a family full of boys, and suddenly you have a daughter." Or Watson's way of saying "we gave them" facilities, time or resources, when "we" means Harvard men and "them" means Radcliffe women. In last year's cases of the Radcliffe swim, basketball and squash teams, the women obtained only those practice times that the men's teams did not use. Put simply, Radcliffe and Harvard students were not "undergraduates...
...merger is scheduled to roll on in its current direction. "If Bob Watson wants to do something," Kaufmann says, "the dean would say 'he's the director of Athletics and he should be able to decide...
However, plans made by the Athletics Department for next year indicate that Harvard may be abandoning that concept. Whether it is the natural course of merger, as Watson claims, or whether it is largely a consequence of the HEW regulations, next year women athletes at Harvard will get a much better deal than they have in the past few years. "Now I can say that it was good that Radcliffe athletics merged with Harvard athletics," Paget said last week...
...Athletics is a good testing ground for merger," Horner said last week. The problems the athletics merger had last year, Horner said, highlight what equality is all about: The two departments merged in 1971, and it took three years for them to learn the difference between merger and submersion...