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Karl Strauch, professor of Physics and chairman of the committee, said yesterday the 17-member committee won't finish its work until next spring, but that it will make tentative recommendations this fall on merger and other issues...
...recent merger of Harvard and Radcliffe athletic facilities resulted in a male sports director and female assistants. "Men do not understand our developing ideology of sports," maintains Roann Costin, captain of the Radcliffe swim team. "We want to develop a program where women do compete highly and do train vigorously, but we can't do that without more time in the pool, more boats to row and more adequate coaching." When the women's ice hockey team of Colby College in Maine was formed two years ago, players were allotted two practice periods...
...Strauch group--named after its chairman, Karl Strauch, professor Physics--is studying the relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe in preparation for merger talks next year...
...expressed desire for the improvement of education for women. While Radcliffe remained geographically distinct from Harvard, she did not have to articulate consistently her concern for women's education. Nestled in the Radcliffe Yard and at the Quad, Radcliffe College's existence spoke for itself. As the demands for merger increased, the issues specifically pertaining to women became obscured. In the last few years, we have begun again, irrespective of our individual opinions about merger, to speak about the particular educational needs of women, not because we are fragile delicate souls who cannot cope, but because we are women...
...decision to contribute to the Radcliffe College fund is not contingent upon any particular stand on the merger versus non-merger issue. If you think Radcliffe should remain a separate institution, then dollars and cents are the insurance needed to maintain and strengthen her present status and to develop the retained functions into the hard-core of a vital women's college. If you favor merger then it must be clear that Radcliffe cannot effect an acceptable liaison with Harvard unless she has some solid footing, particularly in the realm of women's education where Harvard...