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...would be better if the ratio were closer, but I don't think it's as important as attitudes," which Bunting feels can be changed through closer communication within the present student body...
...think there's a tendency at Radcliffe to blame Harvard for this awful ratio, and they are to blame," she continued. "But all these years we didn't do anything either-we didn't pressure them...
Some students have recently been calling for a closer to equal male-female ration than the present four-to-one. Bunting has seen this demand as secondary and possibly detrimental to the primary goal of merger. The strong Harvard opposition to an equal ratio was one of the major reasons for the not-complete-merger plan just approved: legally, the two institutions are still separate. If ever an equal rights amendment is added to the state or federal constitution, it would not apply to an equal admissions policy because these functions will be kept separate under the new contract...
Simpson said that the ratio of women who turn down Harvard in lieu of other law schools is "no higher than that of men," and that many women who refuse Harvard "do not go to law school...
...said, explaining that he expects the financial belt-tightening to continue at least through the next two years. On the basis of a "crisis 'base budget' for the immediate future,"-half of which would go to centralized services such as library operations and University overhead-the student-Faculty ratio, now one of the lowest of the Harvard Graduate Schools at 7-1, would likely increase. Furthermore, notes Sizer, there would be "little room for experiment and growth...