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CHUL has had a propensity over the years for making bizarre decisions. Last year they reset the sex ratio at Radcliffe, pulling that odd male proportion 1.18 out of thin air. Administrators didn't know where it came from; they eventually established a 1.3-to-1 ratio...
Their protests and faith vindicated, advocates of Radcliffe's 1.18-to-1 male-female ratio and defenders of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life were smiling yesterday. CHUL had voted to rescind its much maligned January recommendation that specific sex ratios be eliminated for all houses...
...vote followed the report of a committee which the Council organized two weeks ago to study the question of equal sex ratios at Radcliffe. The committee cited the following reasons why a 1:1 ratio should be maintained at Radcliffe...
...assure that a female student can live in an environment where there is an equal sex ratio...
...hard to think of any good reasons why Harvard shouldn't have one-to-one admissions, and there are lots of good reasons why it should. A one-to-one sex ratio would help create an atmosphere of equality and cooperation rather than one of domination of one group by another...