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Bryn Mawr, however, saw Haverford's decision as a direct threat to its single-sex future. Officials and students felt that if Haverford went coed, the mix of students in the exchange program would change from a roughly fifty-fifty male-female ratio to two-thirds or more women. Thus, in a time of increasing competition for bright female students, Bryn Mawr's special situation would no longer look so attractive...
...will be asked to consider the matter, and voices of protest to the Fox plan have already been heard there. In short, the matter has just begun to be considered. We hope that these groups will recognize the need to have four class housing and a one-to-one ratio in the University, and also recognize our right to have renovations made at the Quad without strings attached to such improvements...
...write a long feature on the housing issue to appear during the first week of the second semester. After explaining the various alternatives and positions, I made a prediction: that CHUL would vote for a uniform system of three-year Houses, and would make certain adjustments in the sex ratio of the Quad Houses. My editor, older and bureaucratically wiser, advised me last February that committees like CHUL generally find adequate solace in the status quo, and end up voting for it. As it turned out, he was right and I was wrong. CHUL voted to retain four-class housing...
...lifestyle much different from that at the River Houses. They have a mixture of four classes. This aids freshmen in adapting to House life and combines formal House staff advising with informal upperclassman counseling that Yard freshmen cannot receive. They have an almost one-to-one male-female ratio. And, the Quad Houses provide an alternative for many to the overbearing, "old Harvard" atmosphere of the River Houses...
...easy enough concession to make. If future admissions figures stay at the Class of '80's 1:.91 ratio, only a small juggling will be required...