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Aside from the issues the Strauch Committee is dealing with, the corporate aspects of merger come up for review next spring as well, and Horner will be participating in a series of meetings starting this summer to discuss the merger renewal. "There's a wide range of possibilities," she says. "We could dissolve the Radcliffe board of trustees in exchange for places on the Corporation (now all male). Or we could make Radcliffe a tub within Harvard University. Or we could merge some areas and not others, or work together cooperatively. But I hope after a serious review that...
...really led to think this would be a half-time job, but if you take it seriously and ask hard questions, it takes more time. But I really am primarily a teacher and researcher, though I promised to stay in this job through next spring, when the merger expires." After which, if she leaves her post then, the president of Radcliffe College will have to start worrying about getting tenure
...terms of the 1971 non-merger merger agreement that had a significant effect on undergraduate life was the absorption of the Radcliffe Houses into the Harvard House system. Harvard men have since come to outnumber women in the three Radcliffe Houses, and Radcliffe women have dispersed throughout the Yard and all of the Harvard Houses. And Harvard now foots the bill for the operating expenses of the whole House system...
...property and all the rest of its $57,461,341 in total assets. Radcliffe, on the other hand, is cautiously trying to impress upon Harvard that her assets include some things in which Harvard has little interest--but nonetheless to which it must be committed if a complete merger is ever to be realized...
...even more important for current undergraduate life, the problems posed by Radcliffe's ownership and Harvard's administration of the Quadrangle Houses have become more apparent in the years since the non-merger merger was negotiated. From the outset the two older Quad Houses--North and South--have been physically inferior to those at the River. This is a problem that can only be solved by additional construction or large-scale renovation. But when Harvard took over the administration of the Radcliffe Houses, it was assumed that the distribution of furnishings provided to Harvard undergraduates would be equalized. The fact...