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...most President Bok would do was to offer a plan for a 2.5-to-1 ratio of men to women, and this only by expanding the colleges...
Committee members who drew up the non-merger recommendation admitted freely that their proposal intentionally avoided the ratio issue--which was not in keeping with their report's repeated emphasis on "full and equal participation of Radcliffe students in the intellectual and social life of the University...
Ironically the poor sex ratio and limited distribution of women in the Yard have created less of a problem to Harvard and Radcliffe than the success of the experiment itself, which has exacerbated a serious problem facing both colleges--the growing unpopularity of Radcliffe housing...
Although more attractive with the addition of women, the Yard is not about to win any Affirmative Action award. Its male-female ratio remains at about 4 to 1, while the Quad sports almost a 1 to 1 balance. Now, with less than half of the Radcliffe freshman class living in the Quad, the Yard's sex ratio has probably become fixed for the time being, although the September 1974 opening of Canday Hall, a new freshman dorm, may affect it somewhat...
...fact, male faculty and administrators had feared a legal merger would eventually require a one-to-one male-to-female ratio...