To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

A CRIMSON article of February 18, while mentioning that the faculty has voted to defer decision on the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, in fact gives the impression that the Harvard community has already decided that merger would be unwise. Another negative view of merger has just appeared in the Harvard Bulletin. The effect of these articles is to hamper just that thorough discussion that the new faculty committee was set up to insure.

We therefore urge that all members of the community examine those assumptions which have not yet been examined and listen to those voices which have not yet been heard. Among the former are the assumption that a separate institution can best represent women's interests, the implication that the problem of the woman's role in our society is too large a subject for Harvard to examine, and the assumption that the number of males admitted to Harvard College should not be decreased. Among the groups that have not yet been heard, the undergraduates, both male and female, are the most important. We, as faculty members concerned about all our students, must make a greater effort to understand their views on merger and on its relationship to the quality of their education.