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...Radcliffe Office of Admissions, Financial Aid and Women's Education to assume the deanship of Harvard's new Office of Undergraduate Affairs. After all, Arthurs has been hard at work for the last two years preparing the scenario for her own exit. Voicing her views "very noisily" on the Strauch Committee, Arthurs pushed for an admissions policy that would make her own Byerly Hall bailiwick superfluous. Now, with equal access and merged admissions offices a reality, she is sadly saying goodbye to what she calls "an independent, autonomous, happy office...
According to Arthurs, creation of the Office of Undergraduate Affairs was discussed in University Hall prior to the publication of the Strauch Report, but, she says, "I'm not at all sure the deanship would have materialized so quickly if changes hadn't been taking place in other parts of the University." While she admits she's been sensitive to the possibility that some feelings in University Hall may have been hurt by the news of her appointment, she says so far "people have been quite cordial" and she anticipates no great difficulties in working with anyone in the administration...
...there is any villain in all this, it is probably the ratio. And the ratio has become a hot topic of late. Last spring, a committee chaired by Karl Strauch, professor of Physics, issued a much-ballyhooed list of recommendations about the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship, the most important of which was that the ratio be dropped in favor of an admissions policy of "equal access." Equal access sounds great on paper: every applicant will be judged solely on the basis of his or her qualifications, without regard to sex. No longer will there be any of those artificial quotas...
...joint staff, which Bok established on July 1 in response to the Strauch Committee recommendation for "unification of the two staff organizations concerned with admissions and finance," includes...
Steiner says he doubts the merger issue will come up next year, but the implementation of the Strauch Report could be a step in the direction of merger. When it loses sole control over its admissions office, the function of Radcliffe for undergraduates will be almost purely a spiritual...