Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hear a good deal of jargon from other women--talk about women's "special needs," the necessity for "role models," the value of "resource people," the usefulness of "support structures." Admittedly offensive language--it accounted for the overnight conversion of many women to a pro-merger, anti-Radcliffe stance--but put into different words, these phrases describe a reality for women at Harvard...
...athlete, your predecessors have done some major advance work for you just within the last year. Athletics proved to be an ominous testing ground for full merger, but the result is that women's sports are better financed now and that some progress is being made towards sharing facilities and decent practice times. Even though Harvard still equates the seriousness of a Radcliffe athletic team with its successes, equality of athletic opportunity is not such an impossible dream...
...midst of it all, there are people like Harvard Corporation member Hugh Calkins '45 and former Radcliffe admissions officer Ann C. Calkins '49, co-heads of the drive, who believe that equal treatment for women should not be linked to the loaded questions arising from the merger issue...
...clear cut or fixed. You could undoubtedly find any number of issues on which the views of the two wings are mainly the same. When CHUL votes on something that's politically controversial--it doesn't happen too often, but largely because of the touchiness of the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, it's not unheard of--CHUL's student members often couch their arguments in ideological terms...
...year, I resented the fact that my sex was inescapably an issue, resented the constant necessity of defending myself and all of womanhood against chauvinist attacks. I resented the strain the unbalanced sex ratio placed upon my social relations, my academics and my general psyche. I resented the awkward merger-non-merger of Harvard and Radcliffe which left all of us hanging, unsure of where we went to school. Radcliffe seemed to be a convenient fiction, designed by Harvard to protect the university from feminine pollution. All Harvard University-- the administration, faculty, alumni and many students--seemed to prefer...