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Rebecca High is a senior living in Dunster House. years of our own lives and recognize the gross injustice of educating wealthy women first. The current ratio of male to female undergraduates, never mind of male to female professors, shows that those really committed to women's education and equality remain a minority...
Although Zeph Stewart, master of Lowell House, may have viewed his proposal to scrap the one-to-one ratio at the Quadrangle Houses as a simple resolution to provoke discussion of the housing issue, the new Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life representatives did not share his opinion...
...Stewart's plan is implemented there is no guarantee that there would be a ratio approaching one-to-one in any House. The stipulation that a minimum number of women be set for each House would only further ensure that women could not find a co-equal living arrangement on more than a small entry-by-entry basis...
THIS AFTERNOON the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life will vote on a proposal by Zeph Stewart, master of Lowell House, to end the one-to-one male-female ratio at the Quadrangle Houses. Stewart contends that sex quotas should be eliminated because they "make the Houses dissimilar," and represent a form of possible coercive "social engineering." The enforced ratios, Stewart believes, are merely arbitrary criteria that end up depriving people of the freedom to decide where they want to live...
Smith has been much less successful both in maintaining an equal male-female faculty ratio and in promoting enough women to higher positions that other comparable women's colleges, such as Wellesley and Mount Holyoke, Adams said...