Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring of 1970, co-residence--"The Experiment"--began. Parietals were abolished, and a few upperclass Harvard and Radcliffe students switched their residences from River to Quad. Next year, Currier opened, relieving overcrowding at Radcliffe. By the fall of 1972, the Quad male-to-female ratio had been fixed...
Smith chose the Quad as his home after his freshman year in the fall of 1970. He and his roommates didn't like the "preppie, water-balloon" atmosphere of the River; he says the 4:1 sex ratio there was "ridiculous, unhealthy, and led to screwed-up social relations...
...proposed to take freshmen away from the Quad. "Here we go again," was the reaction of North House resident Robert Sapolsky '78. "For three years the annual assault on the Quad was timed during vacation, reading period, or exams." In previous years, attempts to rescind the 1:1 ratio and to institute the "1-1-2 Plan" (freshmen in the Quad, sophomores in the Yard, and others at the River) met with widespread undergraduate resistance...
Another factor entering into this year's lottery will be the sex ratios for each House, which the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life set for the rising sophomores. Currier, North and South Houses will have a 1.5-to-1, male-female ratio, while Lowell and Mather will have a 2-to-1 ratio and all other Houses will have ratios no higher than...
...Schlitz for second place last year, with net sales of $1.1 billion and operating income of $106 million. While industry volume grew by 4%, Miller reported an increase of 31.6%. Of Philip Morris' $500 million capital budget in 1978, more than half will be devoted to Miller, a ratio that will continue for several years. The aim is to raise capacity from just over 24 million bbls. to 40 million bbls. by 1980 and draw even with Anheuser-Busch...