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...will undoubtedly have to decide for yourself what Radcliffe "means," particularly because the 1971 non-merger-merger contract will be reviewed during your freshman year. When people ask you where you go to college, will you say Harvard, or Radcliffe? Some women, even those who are not militantly anti-merger, claim Radcliffe as their school simply because the feeling of being an outsider is inescapable and supercedes the fact that Radcliffe only admits you while Harvard will teach you and give you a degree...
...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...