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...students at the meeting complained that the Housing Office had been more concerned with class rank, concentration and sex ratio quotas than with personal choice in determining next year's assignments...
...CHUL ordered a decrease in the number of freshmen living at Radcliffe and a three-to-five ratio of men to women among the sophomores at Radcliffe next year...
...DAYS when Richard Nixon could use foreign policy as the opiate of the masses are over. A Gallup poll released on Sunday showed that the nation opposes the bombing of Laos and Cambodia by a two-to-one margin and that it insists by a six-to-one ratio that the President must consult Congress before undertaking any further military actions in Southeast Asia...
...President's hasty and ambivalent "solution" to the shortage of library space reflects his disregard for educational quality at the College. (No longer a starry-eyed freshman, Bok must face the real crisis of the declining faculty-to-student ratio...
...this information, the pregnant mother of four female children could have amniocentesis performed to determine the fetus's sex. Knowing the sex of the child in advance, the parents could decide whether or not to abort. In this way, families could maintain a balanced--or an unbalanced--male-female ratio...