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...keep two kinds of magazines in The Closet: ones we bind for posterity and ones that have a really high theft ratio," Kautzman said. Joining Playboy in The Closet, for example, were less racy fare such as National Geographic, WIRED and the New York Review of Books...
Striker lamented the low ratio of women to men in Harvard's undergraduate philosophy department during a cigarette break in her large corner office...
...there is little reason to believe that there will be a significant increase in the rate of female tenuring because the 1997 Affirmative Action Plan is little more than an affirmative awareness plan. As Knowles wrote in the fax, "I hope that in the coming years, the gender ratio in the College and on the faculty may in all fields approach unity...and that all admissions (to the College) and all appointments (to the Faculty) be gender-blind...
...true that there are significant obstacles in the way of quickly achieving an acceptable tenure ratio of men to women. In the first place, the rate of Faculty turnover is, according to Knowles, "only about 4 percent" each year. Secondly, the size of the Faculty is very large (418 Senior members), which makes significant percentage changes difficult despite improvements in number. Thirdly, no one should or would have quality sacrificed for quantity...
...going to distinguish the two colleges then you shouldn't distinguish males and females afterward," Dunogue added. "It is strange and disconcerting that there was this ratio, but I feel that it would be inconsistent to have two separate chapters...