The importance of "role models" is not just through their existence, but at least equally through the demonstration that men and women can work successfully together within a mixed hierarchy. Attitudinal problems can best be resolved by such cooperation. We expect that the unified admissions organization which we recommend will serve as a model in this regard.

Counseling

Interest among men and women students in learning about the challenges of combining profession, marriage and family raising is growing. The order of priority is of course an individual decision. However, the exploration of the alternatives, problems, and possible solutions should be sponsored by the University, through individual counseling and/or lectures and meetings.

Individuals are usually most personally affected by these problems after they have left college. The Radcliffe Office of Alumnae Career Services has performed a most valuable service in offering assistance in career counseling for alumnae, and it is important that this work be continued and strengthened.

The importance of "models" in this area is evident. It is essential that these models come from a wide diversity of professions and activities, and not just from academia, teaching or administrative, since only a small fraction of our graduates are likely to find their future in that particular area.

Fellowships and Prizes

A number of prizes and fellowships are still restricted to members of a specific sex. Out of a total number of 70 (22) Prizes (Fellowships), 8 (5) are open only to women and 15 (8) are open only to men. All such restrictions are anomalous within the present context of coeducation and should be eliminated as soon as it can be arranged.

We recommend a goal of awarding prizes and fellowships under a policy of equal access.

We realize that implementation involves some difficult legal questions and the commitment to honor the intent of donors. However, we believe that substantial further progress toward the desired goal is possible, and we urge new efforts in that direction. It may in some cases be possible to at least pair corresponding prizes or fellowships so that by considering available funds over a period of years, awards can be given purely on the basis of merit in any given year. Alternately additional funding should be sought to make possible the granting of awards in those years where a member of the excluded sex is the winner.

There is no better way to demonstrate equal access in competition and awards than to have the selection done by both men and women. We also suggest wider publicity of the awards available.

Physical Plant

We have identified two areas in which the existing physical plants of Harvard and Radcliffe are responsible for problems connected with the increase in the number of women students and the closer relationship between the two institutions.

During the last 20 years, atheistic facilities have not grown with the remainder of the University. This fact has made adjustment to the increased number of women and the new emphasis on women's athletics difficult. Although we have found that facilities available to women today are superior to those available before the 1971 agreement, they are sometimes less satisfactory than those for men. We urge that high priority be given to the requirements of women in planning and construction of future improvements to the athletic plant, and that meanwhile efforts be expanded to make existing facilities available on a more equal basis. There has been substantial progress in the more equal sharing of existing facilities since 1971; further progress is needed and we recommend that a task force be appointed to make specific recommendations where needed.

The Quad facilities represent the second problem area. The social, recreational and living facilities of North House and South House do not match corresponding facilities of the River Houses. Quad Houses are quite removed from the central athletic facilities. Some of these discrepancies affect not just the "living standard," but hinder the functioning of the House as a unit. The most glaring examples of this are perhaps the lack of comparable common space (which at most Houses has other uses such as for theatrical performances) in both North and South Houses and of a Master's Residence (which is the center of many joint student-faculty activities in most Houses) in South House.

Changes in the Quad that were highly desirable in the past when it housed only women have not proven the most efficient for the purposes of today. It seems to us important that any decision on the future use and improvement of the Quad (as for all other University property) be made within the context of the overall University requirements. We also believe that such necessary construction should be given very high priority in the capital program of the University.