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...want to concentrate on the things we're doing well." White includes in his list of positive developments the expanding involvement of members of the Harvard community in all aspects of HPR operations and the "nice balance" of contributions from students on the staff and outside writers, at a ratio of three to two. "The Harvard Political Review isn't a national magazine at all," says White. "It's a forum for political analysis and a service to Harvard students, most of whom don't get much political analysis in whatever newspapers and newsweeklies they read...
First: The committee's decision to establish a 3:1 male-female ratio at one of the Quad Houses is wholly unfair to the upperclassmen of that House. These students decided, one, or two, or three years ago, to suffer the disadvantages--real or imagined--of Quad life, in order that they may enjoy its one important benefit: a normal distribution of men and women ("Quad Spirit" being but a result of this.) Now they stand to lose this advantage, apres coup...
...that nuclear reactors can be designed to operate safely. Still, the defection to antinuke forces by three nuclear engineers with good technical reputations and impeccable records is bound to impress the public-which, according to a recent poll, still favors nuclear power by better than a 3-to-1 ratio...
Implementation of such a proposal would dissolve the Quad's roughly even male-female ratio, leaving one of the three Houses with a less attractive proportion of men and women...
...final trap facing the new committee is the touchy question of implementation. The biggest brouhaha could center around which Houses should be blessed with a 1.5-to-1 male-female balance, especially a nine River Houses try to battle for the one or two slots with the more attractive ratio. This inescapable problem arose repeatedly during the old CHUL's discussions, but a pre-set agenda prevented serious debate over which Houses would...