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...communicated, that it isn't Harvard and Radcliffe, but one," she said. "For instance, people make the distinction between the ten Harvard Houses and the grouped Radcliffe ones, when in fact three happen to be Quadrangle Houses and ten are River Houses. Each may have a different lifestyle, ratio or architecture, but they're all part of one system...
Pointing a finger at the culprit is virtually impossible. Many different ingredients constitute the mess: the 2.5 to 1 sex ratio arising out of Harvard's non-merger merger, the housing shake-up performed in March by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), a possible reversal of the recent trend toward leave taking, a small senior class and the inadequacy of the present plan for assigning freshmen to Houses. Any one of these reasons could have made the roof cave in this Spring...
Understanding the Harvard housing system, with its various quotas and ratios, is as difficult a chore as grasping all of the ins and outs of the Watergate scandal. But as in the case of the bugging controversy, it is most useful to start one's explanation at the top. In this case, President Bok's provisions for a 2.5 to 1 male-female ratio at Harvard. Proposed in early October 1971 and implemented with the current freshman class, the plan provided for an increase in the number of freshman women from slightly over 300 to about 450 while simultaneously reducing...
...significant as a source of humanism and creative education, and as the sole agency for the protection of women's interests. In fact, the "Radcliffe spirit" most clearly manifest in the lifestyle at the Quad, is less a function of the corporation than of the residents, the more equal ratio of men to women and the physical plant. The vision of Radcliffe as a potent agency for women is, as even its adherents admit, more a dream than reality. The non-merger agreement has done nothing but strengthen the tether of Radcliffe's dependence on Harvard: the President of Harvard...
...will be the first production-line car with a "stratified-charge" engine, a modified version of the standard auto engine. That modification, which does not require extensive retooling of production lines, allows the stratified-charge engine to run on mixtures of fuel that are considerably more "lean" (a high ratio of air to gasoline) than standard engines now burn. The result is more complete combustion in the engine's cylinders and the reduction of polluting exhaust gases escaping from the tail pipe...