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WITH the consummation of the "non-merger" and the appointment of the Strauch Committee to study Radcliffe's future, Harvard has recognized that equality between the sexes demands more than the present 2.5 to 1 male-female ratio. Change is in the air, and next year the Stauch Committee will examine a number of plans to bring more women into the College. But only one policy--one-to-one admissions--can begin to end sexual discrimination in the University...
...embodiment of Radcliffe, the Office of Women's Education could be the only part of Radcliffe College that would survive merger. No one, however, has a timetable either for merger or for the OWE's demise. "One of the ironies is that as Radcliffe becomes more vigorous, forcing it to disappear is more of a problem," Arthurs said last week...
Although Radcliffe still owns the three Quad Houses under the terms of the 1971 non-merger merger agreement, Harvard is charged with paying the operating expenses. Last year Harvard helped to finance some renovations in Currier House, but this is the first time that Harvard has agreed to foot the entire bill for construction at Radcliffe...
...foreshorten the meeting structures; can we extricate ourselves from the slag heap of prejudice, arrogance and indifference? Is there room for innovative and imaginative planning? Can we count on "the inner-directed man" to bail us out--granted his qualification for the job? The "limbo" of merger might find part of its answer when we see all students on their own merits as human beings and not in "a glass darkly" as male-female, racially pinpointed, short, tall-ad infinitum. Our business is students and a nice business...
Open Question. Coggan supported Ramsey's Methodist merger plan, and he now sees that effort as part of a "larger unity program" encompassing all Christians. Indeed, his own Call to the North program involves 52 denominational leaders, including Catholics and Salvation Army workers, who meet regularly at York to discuss how best to spread the word of God. Coggan appears receptive to the ordination of women, a practice that has never occurred in Anglicanism except for a handful of cases in Hong Kong. "It is now an open question," Coggan says. "The emotions are less and the intelligent approach...