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...hundred and forty-nine members of the Buildings and Services Union care for about 1035 on-campus girls. This amounts to one-and-a-half employees for every ten girls--a rather high ratio for people with very little income and young enough to need little service, especially when the cost of this luxury could soon rise above the ability of many to pay. The obvious answer is to let Cliffies take care of themselves...
Last night, the Cambridge City Council turned down the petition of Cambridge Plaza Inc. for a zoning amendment to let them build an apartment house--office building complex with a floor-area/land-space ratio (FAR) of seven on the site, now occupied by the Baird Atomic Co. The present FAR of the land is three...
Only the naive believe that patients in a state mental hospital get much personal attention from psychiatrists. There are too few psychiatrists and too many patients; the ratio is about 1 to 100. Many of the doctors are administrators who never see patients, and most of them have at least some administrative duties. And after the doctor takes out time for staff meetings and professional conferences, the patient is lucky if he gets 15 minutes of a psychiatrist's time a week...
...graduate enrollment will increase by 14%. Grad school acceptances by the University of Southern California are running 20% above those of last year. And at U.C.L.A., Director of Planning Adrian Harris says: "We haven't noticed any specific effects of the draft and will have about the same ratio of men to women, the same quality of applicants...
Even worse, the church lacks the ecclesiastical manpower to serve the sheep still within the fold. The ratio of priests to laymen in Latin America is 1 to 5,600 (in the U.S. it is 1 to 785). The Catholic seminary in La Paz, Bolivia, currently has only one seminarian; when he is ordained, he will be the institution's first new priest in four years. Almost half of the continent's clergy are foreigners, most of them Spaniards, Italians and Irish-Americans. More often than not, they are better-educated and more zealous than the native priests...