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Suggestions that equal admissions for men and women should be mandated were discarded because of a general distaste for all quotas and a feeling that a student body so "constructed" would be nearly as artificial as the present one. Instead, the Strauch Committee opted for a policy of equal access admissions, deeming it "natural and compelling" because Harvard has already accepted responsibility for the education and housing of men and women on an equal access basis...
...ideas of quotas and artificially engineered student bodies were rejected by the committee when there finally came a chance to put these "tools" to constructive use: instead of recommending equal access admissions as a gradual means of lowering the male-female ratio, the Strauch Committee should have called on the College to immediately institute 1 to 1 admissions as the best way to prepare for a viable equal access policy within several years. By accepting equal numbers of men and women to the Class of 1980, the University could demonstrate its serious commitment to educating men and women...
...Strauch Committee also agreed that the size of the undergraduate student body should not be "substantially" increased at this time because of the strains that would be placed on the "quality of education." So, as the number of undergraduate women goes up, the number of men will fall in the College. Unfortunately, it is difficult to believe that many Harvard alums will work hard to recruit women at the same time they are being told that, as the women applicant pool increases, the chances of their sons getting into Harvard will drop...
...major recommendations offered by the Strauch Committee, the most important of which is the institution of equal access through a combined admissions office in time for the Class of 1980, are still landmark steps for the Harvard-Radcliffe community. If they are approved by the Faculty, the Governing Boards of Harvard and the Radcliffe Trustees, both institutions will have finally taken the steps that make total corporate merger and the eventual equality of women inevitable. Progress toward these two goals will undoubtedly continue to be all too slow, but the Strauch proposals would at least commit Harvard to a program...
Much of the Strauch report deals with the need for more financial and: better athletic facilities, more women faculty and administrators, the opening of all prizes and fellowships to men and women, and major improvements for the Quad House In the end, the committee pointed out the desirability of having one united University as soon as will of these problems could be worked...