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...comes at all, could appear as students from the Quad try to preserve the four-year status of the Houses. But chances are that the dissidents will be placated with a plan that allows the Quad to retain its other significant difference--a lower male-to-female ratio than the River Houses...
...present assignment system takes into account House occupancy levels, class distribution, and sex ratio. Whether other factors should be introduced is a matter for further discussion. I should note that a goal in the past has been the maintenance of a 1:1 sex ratio in the Quad Houses. Currently the ratio there is about 1.6 to 1 and, since the ratio for the most recently admitted class is 1.9 to 1, this issue may well prove to be less significant than it has been in the past. Nevertheless, because this issue is important to some Quad residents, I favor...
...limits the size of the corporation to 350 people, however, in order that "every person in it can embrace it in his mind and imagination." If growth beyond this size appears necessary, new fully independent units are to be set up along the lines of Scott Bader. Also, the ratio of the highest wages paid to the lowest must not exceed 7:1 before taxes. Applied to General Motors, this arrangement would limit chairman T.A. Murphy's salary and benefits to $95,000, instead of the approximately $1 million he currently receives...
...male/female ratio was maintained until the Class of 1977 when the 2.5:1 ratio was adopted. Even with "sex blind" admissions, the ratio is only expected to reach 60/40 men to women in ten years or more...
Roughly equal numbers of senior and junior faculty members compose the membership of the council, although the ratio at the med school is about five to one, senior to junior faculty...