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...coeducationalized Yard would fall under his jurisdiction. The objections stemmed from a private letter which von Stade had written to the director of Admissions at Radcliffe. In the letter, which The Crimson obtained and published, von Stade said that he opposed any change from the former 4-to-1 ratio of men to women undergraduates at Harvard. "I said I thought that the world in the foreseeable future was going to be primarily run by men," he said. "And I still think so, quite honestly." From this contention, von Stade draws the conclusion that the University should place a greater...
...issue of equal admissions for women versus the current 2.5-to-1 ratio of men to women, Jewett said he dislikes both. "Personally, I'm not comfortable with artificial ratios not based on the facts of the situation," he said...
...said he would prefer a flexible ratio where the composition of the student body would reflect the make-up of the pool of applicants. "Ideally, you ought to be considering people without regard to sex," he said. "You shouldn't give any weight to whether a person is male or female...
...thing he does not want is yet another study of the American medical system. "We already know the facts," he says. "We have developed a fine af-ter-the-fact, high-cost, highly technical, curative system. We have done this to the exclusion of developing services with a high ratio of benefits to cost, such as rehabilitation, health education, preventive medicine, family planning services and the like. This has got to change." With the foundation's clout, disposing $50 million a year in income from its $800 million endowment, Knowles is the man to initiate change. He wants...
...Walpole state prison, and has condemned as dehumanizing a proposed ID card system for Massachusetts welfare recipients-even though an ID system pioneered by Polaroid might well have been used. This year the company reached a longtime goal of employing one black in each ten jobs, about the same ratio as blacks in the total population...