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...that fails, Jacob said, Radcliffe residents may petition the Houses and in the Yard for support of Radcliffe's 1.18-to-1 male-female ratio, or might take stronger action, such as refusing to sign next year's room contracts and organizing freshmen to do the same...
...Radcliffe's residents, the possibilities seem more clear: "This resolution could mean there will be no place where women can live to be sure of a 1-to-1 ratio" said Susan G. Cole '74, the North House CHUL representative. "We shouldn't feel we have to live with men on their own terms...
...CHUL decision was specifically aimed at ending the enforced near-equal sex ratios in the Radcliffe Houses. Shouldn't women, the argument went, be allowed to decide for themselves what Houses are close to 1 on 1 ? But that line of reasoning is full of fallacies: how are women going to know what Houses other women are applying to ? Couldn't it very well end up that all the Houses will have ratios of about 3 to 1 next year? There is no guarantee if Dean Rosovsky implements the CHUL recommendation, that there will be a ratio approaching...
...also logical that the place where a near-equal ratio is guaranteed be Radcliffe, because it is still separate from Harvard and still therefore a women's college. If the CHUL recommendation goes into effect, Radcliffe is very likely to lose its identity as a separate, non-male-dominated living environment...
House committees have repeatedly refused to send student members to the CRR, attacking its admission of hearsay evidence and closed hearings, its man-dated seven-to-four faculty-student ratio, and the concept of a special body for disciplining student demonstrators...