But RCAA President Jane E. Tewksbury '74 saysits reevaluation process is hamstrung byuncertainty about Radcliffe's future.

"Until we know the outcome of theHarvard-Radcliffe discussions, then it's prettydifficult to make any firm recommendations for thefuture of the RCAA," Tewksbury says.

Two of the most significant issues facing RCAAare its funding and its membership.

While RCAA is considered autonomous, theassociation has no funding outside of thatprovided by the college.

"We are a line item on the Radcliffe Collegebudget," says RCAA First Vice President A'Lelia P.Bundles '74, who will become president of theassociation in June. "We're not a dues-payingorganization."

In the event of a merger, it is unclear ifHarvard would continue to fund the RCAA.

"We haven't had that conversation," Bundlessays.

Post says the organization will have to dealwith the issue eventually.

"If there is no Radcliffe College, then [RCAA]cannot be funded by something that does notexist," Post says. "We don't know what that meansfor us, but we can't ignore that."

Post acknowledges that RCAA would behard-pressed to mount its own fundraising efforts.

"It's never had to," she says. "It's not set upto do it... I think that nobody is proposing thatas a choice method."

A more basic structural question than funding,though, is who makes up the RCAA's membership inthe first place.

Currently, all female undergraduates at Harvardare automatically members of both RCAA and theHarvard Alumni Association (HAA) upon graduation.The RCAA also includes graduates of Radcliffeprograms-the publishing course, the Radcliffeseminars, the business administration program-aswell as research institutes like the Bunting.

But what happens if Radcliffe relinquishes itscollege status in a possible merger agreement withHarvard? The RCAA leadership is left with theknotty question of who would make up its futuremembership.

"I think nobody wants to see an RCAA thatdoesn't include future undergraduates," Post says."That would mean that we would kill ourselves overtime. We would cease to exist."