Word: trustfulness
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Fortunately, the College appears to be ready for this responsibility. A new Ann Radcliffe Trust, under the direction of Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery '87, is being set up to fund student groups as part of the Harvard College Women's Initiative. But the details of the trust have not been worked out, and it is unclear exactly who will be reviewing grant requests. It is important that RUS or some other group with substantial student input has control over how the money in the Radcliffe Trust is distributed; otherwise, the trust will be a step backwards...
...approbation of Radcliffe's historic transformation. Indeed, this transistion is long overdue. However, the staff fails to recognize the many significant dangers in the creation of an institute devoted to the study of gender, and perhaps more importantly, they are sorely misguided in their support of the Ann Radcliffe Trust...
More immediately, the staff's endorsement of the Ann Radcliffe Trust is ill-considered. If the staff truly believes that student groups "addressing the concerns of women" have legitimate claim to funding, then such groups should have no problem receiving their funding from the same general pool as everyone else. The creation of a separate Trust symbolically, and unnecessarily, ghettoizes women's groups on campus...
Further we are confused that the staff, which ordinarily is so unyielding in its defense of the University's non-discrimination policy, does not see the problem that the existence of the Radcliffe Trust represents. Even if the Trust remains in technical compliance with the policy, it will have a difficult time not violating its spirit. Groups likely to receive funding from the Trust will almost always be de facto single sex in their nature...
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