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...houses were now too large to manage. For short periods, parts of town were integrated, but in the long run blocks with some black families almost invariably went entirely black. The white middle class thinned out; the black middle class (or would-be middle class) moved in. The racial ratio in the schools changed quickly: 21% black in 1952, 49% in 1962, around 90% today. Most white children switched to private or parochial schools if their parents chose to stay in East Orange...
...reported in the Herald Traveler, Sunday, March 7, as having said,"... from talking to gals, except for those who want to talk theoretically about women's liberation, the minority sex status is not a concern to them. I haven't had a Harvard or Radcliffe student tell me that ratio numbers are important...
...find it surprising that Dean Peterson does not know that students object to the ratio for women at Harvard, even though it has been well publicized that 1200 students have signed a petition requesting a 50-50 admissions ratio for the class entering in 1972-73. Last week, we asked him to come talk with us later this month because we wanted to share our ideas on an equal admissions ratio with him. According to his secretary, Dean Peterson was too busy with admissions for the coming year to talk until May. Is it any wonder that this dean doesn...
...unreality of the myth of academic community becomes more clear in the structure of its protector, the CRR. While the CRR judged only students, nevertheless students were allowed only one-third of the votes on the Committee. Nor did they have any say in the determination of this ratio. Finally, the Committee was set up to function, and has functioned, even if it had no student representation at all. So the recent referenda of all the Houses, in which the students rejected the CRR's election procedures and refused to send representatives to it, will not prevent the CRR from...
...ones-and students have been given a share only in consultation, not in decision, on the nature of their education. Students are the only ones within the academic community who have genuine interest in the quality of their housing, especially in terms of co-ed living and the admissions ratio. (They share an interest with those outside the immediate community in the location of housing.) The Administration and Faculty, however, continue to make the final decisions...