B-School May Admit Women

The Business School may admit women for the first time in its history, under a new proposal passed Tuesday by the Faculty of Business Administration.

This proposal would allow women who have graduated from the one-year Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration to apply as second-year students for the Master's degree. If passed by the Corporation, it would become effective with this year's graduates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program.

Russell H. Hassler, associate Dean of the Faculty, said yesterday that this proposal "does not foreshadow future admission of women as first-year Business School students." The new proposal is for the "small minority" who wish to go on for a Master's degree, he explained.

Another proposal would allow women to participate in the Doctoral Program at the Business School. Both plans will be submitted to the Corporation.