While the RCAA waited for information from theRadcliffe Board of Trustees, the Harvard AlumniAssociation (HAA) held a panel discussion titled"Radcliffe: Past, Present and Future." The panel,HAA's last regular meeting of the academic year,perplexed some by failing to invite Radcliffeadministrators to the panel.

"I am astonished that Radcliffe can be thesubject of a HAA panel, and no one at Radcliffecan be aware of it," said Radcliffe Dean ofEducational Programs Tamar March. "That's not onlya lack of collegiality, but also of sheer'politesse,'" she wrote in an e-mail message.

March said she was concerned about possiblemisconceptions students and alumni may havereceived at the event. She said she was especially"disappointed" by the suggestion from AssistantDean of the College Karen E. Avery '87 thatRadcliffe does not provide an adequate response toissues of sexual harassment and rape.

On the contrary, March said Radcliffe'sresources include literature, occasional speakerson issues of rape and sexual harassment in theLyman Common Room and work in Radcliffe's researchinstitutes on these and other women's issues.

"We are very circumspect about what we do, sothat we stay within the parameters of the [1977]agreement," March said. "I wish I could reallystep in with a bang and do what needs to be done,but I can't."

"But to say Radcliffe does nothing is justabsurd," she added.

However, Colleen T. Gaard '99, a member of theHAA undergraduate relations committee who helpedorganize the panel discussion, said the omissionof Radcliffe officials from the slate of panelistswas not a deliberate snub.

"It wasn't like it was hush-hush in any way--wejust had a limited number of spaces," she said