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...computer gave students housing assignments on the basis of choice, the CHUL House ratio, class rank, concentration, school background and masters' preference...
That year 95 men and 10 women who had not chosen Radcliffe were assigned there to meet the CHUL directed 1.18 to 1 male-female ratio...
...WOMEN WOULD come right out and say that they just aren't interested in meeting other women. Instead, they use code words, usually inadvertantly like, "I can only talk about books and politics with men" or "I like the four-to-one ratio in the Harvard Houses." But the meaning is there; to these women, men are simply more impressive...
...report on Harvard and Radcliffe admissions last week proposed the inevitable: the two schools should adopt a sex-blind admissions policy "as soon as practical", meaning next year. Such a policy would probably not immediately alter the current ratio of 2.5 men to every woman, because fewer women apply. Harvard President Derek Bok and Radcliffe President Matina Horner issued a joint statement saying that the major recommendations of the report "seem to us to have great merit." The proposals still have to be approved by the faculty and trustees. But some Harvard officials and alumni are worried about the long...
...ideas of quotas and artificially engineered student bodies were rejected by the committee when there finally came a chance to put these "tools" to constructive use: instead of recommending equal access admissions as a gradual means of lowering the male-female ratio, the Strauch Committee should have called on the College to immediately institute 1 to 1 admissions as the best way to prepare for a viable equal access policy within several years. By accepting equal numbers of men and women to the Class of 1980, the University could demonstrate its serious commitment to educating men and women...