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Like the Harvard Corporation, the Radcliffe Board of Trustees is a financially independent, self-perpetuating group of people charged with the care of the institution it takes its name from. But where the Corporation is "the oldest ruling oligarchy in America," in the words of one Radcliffe administrator, the Trustees are a more diverse group with a higher public profile and a better public image...
...Faculty did, however, offer what any good bureaucrat would consider the next best thing to a slot on the agenda--it appointed a committee "to examine the issues." Although the Faculty planned to form the committee by the end of the '68-'69 academic year, it did not name the members until August, and the committee in turn did not meet until September. And no Faculty members recall hearing a committee report. On professor said he thought Giles Constable '50, professor of History, might have reported, but Constable denies ever sitting on such a committee...
...issues one has to go back to Scott County. The only thing that divides the northwestern county, which borders on the edge of Kentucky, is the Cumberland mountains and the southern Appalachians. It has no political machines to run amok during elections, although the Republican label and the last name 'Baker' carry plenty of support. The schoolchildren, mostly sons and daughters of coal miners and farmers, attend lily white public schools and eat free lunches. Bussing has never mattered because Scott County has not had a single black resident for at least the last seven years. On Saturday afternoons...
...lure of the Harvard name and visits to Cambridge and Oregon persuaded the junior psych major to go north, not west, from her home in Princeton...
...came as a shocking reintroduction to society that despite the number of achievements I may earn, there are those who will never respect me because of my skin color. This is a perfect illustration of how much further we still have to go before being viewed as equal. Name Withheld...