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Radcliffe Trust Town Meeting Offers Few Answers

"We have lots of programs in mind, lots of things we'd like to do and we're open to ideas and suggestions," Avery said.

Lewis said the Trust may fund these women-focused events, but monies would come from the College's budget and not take cash from the Trust's student group grant fund.

Students said they felt disenchanted with the administrators' event-centered ideas about the Trust.

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"This feels a lot like networking," one student in the audience said. "What about the sense of community among undergraduate women?"

Besides discussing the Trust, students took advantage of having four administrators at their disposal, grilling the deans with questions about the nitty-gritty practicalities of Radcliffe's merger with Harvard.

Some in the audience lamented the loss of the Lyman Common Room, a space reserved for undergraduate women in the past and a room that Radcliffe is now starting to use for its own purposes.

"For a very long time people have cast envious eyes at the Lyman Common Room," Dunn said. "We'd like to re-think the use of that space."

Fox gave a short update on programs traditionally sponsored by Radcliffe that will now fall under the auspices of the College.

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