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...five currently coed Houses, only from 50 to 80 places would be open to incoming men next year if a two-to-one ratio were achieved...
...four masters also feel that a coed living plan with a minimum female residency requirement in each House could be successful despite Harvard's four-to-one male-female ratio...
...woman's right to have a career." Radcliffe women are more than ever aware of the implications of their ambitions, more than ever concerned about what it means to be a woman at male-oriented Harvard. As they sadly watch hopes of merger with a one-to-one ratio clatter to the ground beside visions of a beneficent, responsive Harvard, many of them begin to change their focus of questioning from what it was two years ago. Instead of asking "What do we have to gain?" they more cautiously consider "What do we have to lose by merging with Harvard...
...recent commotion over making all Houses coed, despite the four-to-one ratio at Harvard. helped solidify opinions on this issue. One thousand signatures-Harvard signatures as well as Radcliffe signatures-have been collected on a petition for equal admissions of men and women and a one-to-one ratio in coed Houses, Rabecca J. Scott '71 reported two weeks...
Some students even venture that the "non-merger" is a deliberate attempt on Harvard's part to avoid the ratio issue, perhaps a legal loophole to evade prosecution by the HEW for discriminatory admissions policies. Controversy grows since financial feasibility and responsibility to the Cambridge community change the problem from one of increasing the number of women at Harvard to reducing the number...