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WHEN President Bok announced that the current male-female undergraduate ratio would be lowered over the next four years, with only a minor decrease in the number of men admitted, he set off an epidemic of planning among Harvard students and faculty--particularly in the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life--that yielded some 20 different housing proposals in almost as many days. All of the proposals begin with the simple recognition that, over the next four years, there will just be too many bodies at Harvard-Radcliffe to continue with current housing arrangements. Each proposal, at root, is built...
...move into the Yard as advisors. Such a plan would not change the basic assumptions of the current system but would provide male freshmen with some upperclass contact. Its major disadvantage is that by decreasing the number of upperclass women, while increasing the number of freshmen, it brings the ratio of freshmen to upperclassmen in the Radcliffe Quad to such a high level that several Radcliffe Masters and many Radcliffe students feel it would result in the collapse of the Radcliffe Houses. In recognition of this problem. Von Stade himself has shifted his support to one of the modified "Harvard...
...goods from the U.S. every three months; Washington wants that limit increased, to something closer to the $100-per-trip limit put on Americans who shop in Canada. Second, under a 1959 agreement, Canada's defense purchases in the U.S. were supposed to remain in a roughly fixed ratio to U.S. defense expenditures in Canada; lately Canadian spending has lagged, and the U.S. wants it boosted. Third and most important, the U.S. wants a change in a 1965 auto agreement that allows Canadian-made cars to enter the U.S. duty-free but heavily taxes non-dealer traffic...
...personal comfort or desires," nothing would have been accomplished. Several factors accounted for the generally cheerful complicity of the diggers, who were, in some senses, being exploited. The atmosphere of community was the strongest cohesive force. Diggers lived, ate, worked and relaxed together. Privacy was a rare commodity. The ratio of men to women was even, and the social life was another persuasive communal force. As one site supervisor remarked. "They (the diggers) don't come for the social life, because they don't know it's here, but they'd leave without...
Although he did not make any motions, he noted the relatively low student-teacher ratio in some graduate courses, and suggested that a redistribution of faculty time might be in order. His report will be circulated in printed form in the near future...