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Removing the "college" tagline from Radcliffe's name would put an end to the schizophrenic system of admitting female undergraduates to both Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and having Radcliffe collect tuition dollars then immediately transferred to Harvard. The current system, confusing and time-wasting, is a symbol of all that is wrong with the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship. Undergraduates deserve a clearly-defined identity as students of Harvard College, and Radcliffe deserves to be more than just a vestigial gateway for female students...
...doubt strongly that the value that has been added can be chalked up to the administration's strength, as opposed to the diversity and vitality of the students within Harvard's gates. The answer to the question "Is it worth it?", then, lies not in the financial tabulations of tuition payments and endowment earnings but in the uniqueness and intimacy of our private lives...
...administration to listen to the opinions of House tutors, undergraduates, alumni, House staff and House masters regarding this change in the House environment. By continuing with the present system of randomization, the administration will continue to rob undergraduates of an experience more valuable than what they pay in tuition. NISHA D. S. HITCHMAN '97 Philadelphia...
...gone away? Oh, yes. Aside from the respected research institutes, the female undergrads that I met seem to have only the vaguest sense of the college to which they pay tuition and whose name is on their diploma. These women today are Harvard students (my daughter included), and Radcliffe is a concept...
Some might dismiss the idea that such unsavory things will arise when each student is only assessed a minuscule portion of the bill. Perversely, the fact that the bill is so small exacerbates the insult. With parents working to pay for an already exorbitant tuition, having a charge of $6.50 tacked on their child's term bill with the terse explanation "damage done to common area" rubs salt in a raw wound...