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...plan eliminates a female residency requirement in the Houses. The number of women in each House next year will be based on House and ratio preferences indicated by students on applications...
...main obstacles preventing a change in the male-female ratio at Harvard are repeatedly cited by administrators at both colleges: the Faculty and the alumni...
Most administrators express strong doubts that Harvard will take any step toward equal admissions in the next four years. One administrator said: "I doubt the ratio will change I'll eat my shirt if Harvard decreases the number of men. Von Stade is quite representative of the Harvard Administration. I don't think students have the kind of power to change that. It would turn off the alumni...
...significant that the Committee on Harvard-Radcliffe Relationships has chosen to ignore the issue of equal admissions rather than to determine a specific ratio in the report. By keeping separate admissions offices Harvard is implicitly accepting the current admissions policy. There is nothing to indicate-short of tremendous student pressure-that this policy will change. The understanding between Harvard and Radcliffe is that the "gentlemen's agreement" whereby Radcliffe admits no more than 330 freshmen per year will continue under the new contract. Steiner feels that, "We were not in a position to resolve the admissions ratio question for four...
...apparent after talking to administrators on both sides of the Common, that Radcliffe does simply not have sufficient bargaining power to gain concessions from Harvard. Radcliffe is helpless against powerful constituencies such as the Faculty and the Harvard alumni, both of whom, according to any change in the admission ratio. Radcliffe as Harvard administrators, are dead set against a separate institution will never have the influence it needs to change Harvard's discriminatory polices toward women. Not until Harvard recognizes Radcliffe women as full and legitimate members of the undergraduate community will there be any possibility of admission reform...