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...Class of '75 arrived at Harvard immediately after the so-called "non-merger merger" between Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, under which Radcliffe maintained its official organizational independence but Harvard assumed responsibility for all finances...
...Shortly after the merger, President Derek C. Bok abolished the fixed 4 to 1 male to female admissions ratio--only to replace it with a ratio...
...past midnight, Radcliffe College officially came to an end. For 120 years, there had been two colleges under the Harvard umbrella, dedicated to the interests and needs of undergraduates; in the October night, Radcliffe College was no more, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was born. While this merger is likely to be the best policy for both Harvard College and the Radcliffe Institute to pursue their goals, the question still remains how women's issues and gender concerns will be addressed in the post-Radcliffe...
Perhaps the most radical change brought about by the merger is the change in funding and space availability for undergraduate women's groups. Under the banner of Radcliffe College, the Lyman Common Room served as a place to meet, display material and provide a space that was where many of the groups concerned with issues of gender could interact. The Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), the putative governing body of Radcliffe College, provided a source of funding for these programs, using term-bill fees from women to fund a wide range of projects and programs. With the end of Radcliffe...
...competition-minded regulators) than the neatly complementary maps of United and US Airways. And United is divesting what little there is, at Washington's Reagan Airport, creating DC Air and handing it to BET mogul Robert Johnson in a little backyard lobbying of the Capitol crowd. But even that merger will get a very close look from the Justice Department, Congress, even the Europeans - not to mention the unions involved - and some analysts are giving it no better than a 50-50 shot at consummation. So American probably figures it can tip those odds in its favor by confronting regulators...