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...clear, however, that Harvard is interested in making such changes. The 4-to-1 ratio here is hardly an isolated inequity: women are treated as second class at every level of the University. Women hold few major teaching appointments, including only two full professorships; they are clustered around the off-ladder positions which seldom lead to professional advancement. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare this year required Harvard to submit a plan to correct discrimination in its employment practices. And when students protested the pay differential between male and female cooks in Radcliffe kitchens, a Radcliffe official explained...
...issue with the current admissions policy, which imposes an unfair and rigid quota of one woman per four men. Harvard could easily achieve an approximate one-to-one ratio over the next four years," one Radcliffe senior said yesterday...
...famous pink beaches are now marred by traces of tar. Another sign shows up in studies made by David Wingate, a government conservationist. In 1968, he found oil clotting the underfeathers of 1 in every 100 longtails, a graceful sea bird that breeds in Bermuda. This year the ratio rose to 1 in 4. Wingate believes that floating particles of tar-perhaps caused by tankers pumping, out their tanks, smear the birds as they sit on the water. Since longtails die if oil sticks to their wings or is eaten in preening, their numbers are declining...
...hoping that the Equal Admissions Fund will give Radcliffe students and alumnae who want to support the College a chance to express their dissatisfaction with the present ratio, but more importantly we think the Fund may give Radcliffe some leverage with Harvard in terms of admitting more women," Fletcher said last night...
...after ten years the Class of 1985 does not have a one-to-one ratio, the committee administering the Fund, composed of one member of the Class of 1970 and one each from each of the classes now enrolled, will meet to decide how to dispose of the money collected...