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...part of the Committee on Year Round Operation (CYRO) plan, which has already been approved by the Dartmouth faculty by a 158 to 44 vote, women will be admitted to Dartmouth starting next year in a ratio to men of one to three. Eventually Dartmouth will have an enrollment of 3000 men and 1000 women...
...supports a 24-hour day care center but said that it should be carefully controled by the community. "The most important thing about a day care center," he said, "is the ratio between adult and child." "It is important to have as many people as possible taking care of children. And it would be a good thing to involve old people, have students come home after school to work in the centers, and maybe people could someday work seven hours a day and then spend the extra time taking care of kids...
Delighted by his success, Dutka is now eying more ambitious projects: calculating million-digit values for TT (3.14159 . . .), the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter; and the mathematical constant e (2.71828 . . .), the base of natural logarithms and one of the most significant numbers in higher mathematics. Says Dutka: "After that, I can well afford to call it quits...
...statement" recommends enlarging the Radcliffe class from about 300 to 450 and cutting the Harvard class from 1200 to 1150. If the plan is enacted, total enrollment will increase by about 400 over a four-year period, and the Harvard-Radcliffe ratio will drop from 4 to 1 down...
...increased numbers of women would be ploughed back into scholarships. If that money proved insufficient, the admissions offices should be merged and scholarships should be provided without regard to sex. That can be decided later. What is needed now is a clear commitment to a 1 to 1 ratio. The University must adopt an admissions policy that cuts the number of men as the only financially practical and educationally desirable method of educating more women...