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...warning of fraternities at Illinois, but the fact that they no longer offer the advantages to their members that they once did. Many of the houses are far less comfortable than the new University dormitories; the food is rarely any inducement; and now that the men-women ratio has been improved from 4-to-1 to 2-to-1, their former competitive social advantage has been much diminished. Furthermore, since the firm Calvinist tradition of the Midwest prohibits liquor anywhere on the University-including the fraternities-and there is likewise never any room permission for women guests, no fraternities...
...nine deployed Polaris submarines, the Ethan Allen and five others were on patrol last week. That two-thirds ratio is standard-although during the height of the Cuba crisis, all nine were ordered to sea. The location of the subs on patrol is known only to a small circle of top military and Government leaders. All that most of the crewmen and officers know is that they are somewhere within their missiles' 1,500-mile range of Soviet targets...
Priming the Pump. Nearly half of the 530,000 Americans in state mental institutions are jammed into hospitals that are so large the patients get no individual care. With a patient-psychiatrist ratio of 360 to 1, effective treatment is almost impossible. The mentally ill remain in the hospitals and get worse. The average stay for schizophrenics is eleven years. With drugs and other new treatments, said the President, two out of three schizophrenics can now be sent home within six months. "If we launch a broad new mental health program now, it will be possible within a decade...
...academic year 1961-62 was the tenth year of Dean Greep's leadership of the School of Dental Medicine, and the twentieth since the institution of the new program with its high faculty-student ratio under which the students follow for the first two years the same general curriculum as students in the Medical school. Slowly the graduates of the School of Dental Medicine are establishing a proclivity for experiment within their profession. It is the School's conviction that it is only as this is done that there will be any hope of effectively contending with dental disease...
Many correspondents offer carefully thought out advice. One particularly astute fan suggested the superior parabolic trajectory followed by elliptical winks. "He was absolutely right," admits Parry. "We experimented and found that the best ratio between the major axis and the semi-minor axis...