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Third, the present debate on sex ratios at the Quad has not faced the material fact that maintenance of the 1:1 ratio there now demands that a greater proportion of women than men be assigned to the Quad against their will. To the credit of the summer housing debates, one issue about the Quad was: "Can the disproportionate unhappy assignments of women there be justified?" At present an even sex ratio is coercively imposed at the Quad despite the fact that if women's actual preference were taken into account this could naturally lead to a 1:1 ratio...
...isolating the freshmen in the Yard, or worse yet in the Union dorms, is socially and psychologically detrimental. The entrance into the mainstream of university life is postponed, and the whole process of the conversion of a high-school identity to a collegiate one is delayed. The male-female ratio of approximately 3:1 in the Yard, and the total absence of women in the Union dorms, makes freshman social life, at best, disheartening. Grouping of freshman in the Quad would add a sense of physical detachment to the existing social isolation, and further deter freshman assimilation...
...Total sales of all businesses climbed 1.7% from July to August: 0.3% for retailers, 1.3% for wholesalers, 2.7% for manufacturers. The August gain totaled $2.9 billion, or more than twice as much as inventories increased. That means the ratio of inventories to sales declined. To keep this key ratio from dropping too far, businessmen may have to build up their stockpiles faster if sales remain strong. The new orders should give a further boost to production...
...latest in a long line of "innovative" proposals for housing students is the so-called 1-1-2 plan. While it may sound like the College's sex ratio, 1-1-2 actually describes the geographic location of each class in descending order -- descending, that is, from north to south, from the Quad to the Yard to the River Houses. The initial (1) symbolizes freshmen, who would no longer engage in "Matthews Sucks, Holworthy Sucks" contests. Instead they would be embroiled in yelling epithets across the Quad, between Whitman and Briggs, for example. The second (1) represents sophomores, who would...
Undergraduates have been distinctly cool to 1-1-2. No one in the Quad Houses likes the system because it would do away with North, South and Currier Houses and presumably leave no House with a 1-1 sex ratio. The proposal doesn't charm CHUL representatives from the River Houses either; they fear wholesale change in the life in their Houses and in the undergraduate education Harvard offers...