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After some encouraging gains in the early 1970s the job situation for poor blacks has lately turned worse. Historically, the ratio of black unemployment to white unemployment has been 2 to 1. That ratio declined in 1970 and 1971 when an expansive economy, coupled with pressure for equal opportunity, provided openings for a larger number of black workers. But when the economy soured last year, the old 2-to-1 ratio reappeared. The current unemployment rates are 9.5% for blacks and 4.7% for whites. One-third of black teen-agers are jobless, which is more than double the rate...
Michaels said he thinks that the committee will still move away from any enforced ratio--even one-to-one--because of the fear of legislation and a general trend toward rejection of quotas...
...January, CHUL, on a narrow 12-10 vote, decided to abolish Radcliffe's one-to-one sex ratio and set a maximum 4.3-to-1 ratio at all houses. Dean Rosovsky expressed dismay at the "clearcut lines drawn at the meeting between the representatives from Radcliffe and the representatives from Harvard"--the Harvard representatives, desirous of more women at their Houses, ganged up to overcome the Radcliffe contingent...
...agitation bore fruit at the ballot box. When a new CHUL was elected after the semester break, it voted unanimously to repeal the measure, and to set a 1.18-to-1 male-female ratio at Radcliffe. Anne L. Peretz, co-master of South House, said of the reversal, "I guess that people just don't like rocking the boat...
...current issue for her is admissions, the only area of women's education that Radcliffe controls. She refers to the Strauch committee, which presumably is studying the educational aspects of merger, as "an admissions study," responsible for working out the interlocking problems of the size and the male-female ratio of the College...