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Radcliffe President Mary Bunting last night endorsed a plan to continue the unequal distribution of women in the Harvard houses and the one-to-one ratio of men to women at Radcliffe, at a meeting of about 140 students at Dunster House...
Above all, it is clear that housing conditions will not be satisfactory until there is a 1:1 ratio of men to women throughout Harvard and Radcliffe. The Harvard-Radcliffe "non-merger" merger brought co-residential living; but far from assuaging the problems of uneven numbers of men and women, it highlighted the intolerable situation perpetuated by Harvard's sexist admissions policy...
...people living in the high-ratio Houses certainly deserve a better housing situation as much as those who live in low-ratio Houses. Yet until an equal admissions policy is achieved, a somewhat higher priority to supportive women's living conditions is justified: women in small minorities in the nine Houses would be isolated from other women as well as from unstrained contact with...
...proposal now before CHUL should be defeated. The ratio of men to women in the Harvard Houses should be kept at least at what they are at present and certainly not widened. Women should be placed in overwhelmingly male Houses only on a volunteer basis, as was done this year. If those women who chose Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett or Mather Houses find the situation dismaying, they should be allowed to move back to Radcliffe, while upperclass women at Radcliffe should have the choice to move to Harvard. Furthermore women who are transfers should be placed in Houses with good ratios...
Concludes Brewster: "Once we overcome the lopsided ratio, I don't think there will be any drawbacks to coeducation at Yale. People have a much more human relationship with each other now. They're more considerate. Educationally, socially, and even morally Yale is a much better place than it was before...