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...Today there are 3.2 workers for every person receiving Social Security payments. By 2025, the ratio will drop to 2.2, and Social Security taxes will have to increase by at least 50%. Thus the cohort responsible for the "generation gap" of the '60s may find themselves on the other side of another generation gap as their children are heavily taxed for their support...
Brimmer prospered at Washington. That he enjoyed a professor as an exclusive mentor, he says, was due to the fact that there was a small student-faculty ratio in the department. But Brimmer admits that he was already grading others' papers as an undergraduate and that he was a reader for a professor...
...Harvard President Derek C. Bok, who instituted the 2.5-to-1 male-female ratio here and reportedly favors what administrators like to call "equal access" admissions, keeping mum on merger...
First weeks at college are difficult enough without some man you've barely met writing love poems to you and dogging your every step. It is probably pretty standard freshman fare at most co-ed colleges. But the five to one ratio made it that much more likely to happen to each...
Most of all freshman year, I resented the fact that my sex was inescapably an issue, resented the constant necessity of defending myself and all of womanhood against chauvinist attacks. I resented the strain the unbalanced sex ratio placed upon my social relations, my academics and my general psyche. I resented the awkward merger-non-merger of Harvard and Radcliffe which left all of us hanging, unsure of where we went to school. Radcliffe seemed to be a convenient fiction, designed by Harvard to protect the university from feminine pollution. All Harvard University-- the administration, faculty, alumni and many students...