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...autonomous local districts-and thus treats all pupils the same-is Hawaii. Money for education is raised principally through income and excise taxes and portioned out at roughly $930 per student. The schools' physical facilities are of equal quality, they have about the same pupil-teacher ratio (26 to 1) and even the same menus at the cafeterias. Slightly more money is spent in low-income areas because of federal programs intended to help the poor...
...claim that no members of the Class of 1975 were assigned to Harvard Houses not among their five choices is absurd. We at Redcliffe remember the sad tales of many women in the Class of 1975 faced with an assignment to one of the low-ratio Harvard Houses without having cited it as a choice, a phenomenon carried into this year as well...
...that the dissatisfaction is somehow related to the quotas assigned by the CHUL. In that both men and women were assigned to Radcliffe without listing it as an option, it seems inescapable that at least 85 people would have been dissatisfied with a Radcliffe assignment regardless of any established ratio. In particular, if the number of women assigned to the Quad had been reduced by ten or more, this figure would presumably increase, in that men not listing Radcliffe would take the places of women...
...transfer rule requires transfers to "maintain as nearly as possible" the 1.18:1 male-female ratio of the Radcliffe Houses, and prohibits switches between Harvard Houses until December...
...resolution calls for transfers to "maintain as nearly as possible" the 1.18-to-1 male-female ratio that CHUL has established for Radcliffe Houses...