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Collier said separate housing lotteries had been held for men and women, in an attempt to preserve the male-female ratios in some Houses and to equalize the ratio in others. Admission to the Yard was sexblind, however, he said...
...privately owned electric utility has just announced that it will take all of the six-county metropolitan area's solid wastes-some 8,000 tons a day-and burn them in its power plants in the ratio of one part trash to nine parts coal. By 1977 Union Electric will build several collection yards where the refuse will be transferred from private or municipal trucks to rail cars. At the power plants, recyclable materials (iron, steel, aluminum and glass) will be removed and the rest of the wastes burned. Antipollution devices will trap and treat soot and gases...
...laboratories, lecture halls, classrooms, libraries and house--available for assistance, advice, instruction and recommendations. The TF is the intermediary between the undergraduate and a harried junior and aloof senior faculty; the TF is the basic source of personalized instruction standing between the much touted 6:1 student-faculty ratio and the unmentionable $3200 yearly tuiton...
...forces outnumber the rebels by a ratio of at least 4 to 1, but the government troops are poorly paid and their commanders are often corrupt. Says one American expert: "There is no leadership. The army has no idea what to do." Moreover, the quality of the government's equipment leaves a bit to be desired. As one Pentagon official puts it: "The Cambodians are fighting with the biggest museum of junk you ever saw." Their air force, for instance, consists of 20 or so pre-Korean-War-vintage T-28 fighter-bombers, a few DC-3s that have...
Collier said the male-female ratio of next year's Yard sophomores will reflect the sex ratio of applicants, which remains to be tabulated...