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...hubcap in hand, to Harold Wilson's Labor Government for a five-year loan of $230 million or so to help it get over a severe cash shortage caused by plunging sales. Peugeot and Citroen have sought and received financial backing from the French government for a desperation merger. Italy's Fiat, hit by a sharp decline in sales, is struggling to unload an inventory of some 345,000 unsold cars. Meanwhile, a variety of troubles have overtaken the largest auto manufacturer outside the U.S., West Germany's Volkswagen...
Although women may debate the practical results of merger, their passionate disagreement about the issue arises from different perceptions of the two institutions, a gut reaction over which one arouses greater distrust: Radcliffe, laden with 100 years of unrealized potential, or Harvard, with a record of 300 years of discrimination and indifference to women. Women agree that they have a long haul ahead before they'll be fully accepted into Harvard and into society as a whole; they disagree over whether they should rest their hopes with Harvard or with Radcliffe...
...with a glittering vision of Radcliffe as it might be, the best of both worlds--a women's school that gives its students protection, strength and room to blossom in this sexist world, but also a co-ed school, with its obvious social, emotional and educational advantages. Opponents of merger feel that it is necessary to have the protection Radcliffe affords, to have an advocate for women's rights and a focus to keep them from being isolated within the male university. Harvard has shown so little concern for women in the past, that it seems foolish to imagine that...
...DISPUTE over merger comes down to a dispute over the most practical way to defend women in the University and prepare them for the same battle for equality after graduation. This dispute, in the end, only serves to draw attention away from the basic issue of sexism and to create an artificial division between women here. The questions of tactics, of the style of the fight, are peripheral to the difficult problems of establishing lives as liberated men and women...
...long as Radcliffe remains separate, its very existence will provoke controversy, will be seen by many as a burden around the necks of its students. Merger will be a slight psychological victory, as it implies at least a bureaucratic recognition of women's equality. But the battle against sexism in the University can only be won by a much longer struggle requiring the cooperation of all women, in all facets of their lives, including personal relationships. Radcliffe as an institution will never be able to convert the sexists; meanwhile, it gives them an excuse to ignore women and their rightful...