Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Gupta, an occasional junior varsity soccer player, has been playing ping pong since he was six years old, when he had to wear high wooden sandles just to reach the table. His short height and small frame ??? 124 ??? allow him to do extraordinary things...
...aimed at ten per cent enrollment of black students and substantially increased numbers of other minority and disadvantaged groups" by 1973-74. The problem with this promise was that the Regents allotted only three million dollars to the program at the end of four years, an amount which would allow, as Fleming admitted, five or six per cent black admissions. Other additional funds to reach the "goal" of ten per cent were to be solicited from outside sources. In other words, the university had committed itself only to five to six per cent black enrollment while superficially announcing a goal...
...groups with low numbers could then apply for suites in the Houses. But the numbers have already been drawn and the 480 girls who drew low numbers would feel justifiably betrayed if the first lottery was discarded. A lesser evil than a wholly new lottery would be to allow women to form groups now and average their numbers. While this would create difficult conflicts, it would at least add a flexibility to the plan that is sorely lacking...
...rejection of the six-to-one ratio is a mistake, then it would not only be just but feasible to allow any House to go coed if it could supply enough rooms. The Cliffies could still apply to the Houses of their choice and the Houses would have the responsibility of admitting them. Morcover. the complicated process of admitting women to all-male Houses next Spring would be climinated, as each House would simply fill its vacancies with sophomore applicants from Radcliffe...
...Only Dean May has shown any understanding of its complexities. and students, who were consulted in only the most perfunctory manner, have had little opportunity to challenge a system that will have such a great efect on life at Harvard. Dean May should postpone the date for applications and allow sufficient time to explain the plan, answer objections, and make changes. There is no reason to wait until next year to examine this plan...