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...letter sent to Dean May yesterday, the House Committee chairmen of the four non-coed Houses have recommended such a solution, only asking that a new, random lottery determine, once and for all, which Houses go coed. Since last year's preferential lottery-engineered by May in a stunning display of bureaucratic complexity-approached the arbitrary quality of random selection, it would seem absurd to repeat a process that would ultimately uproot some of the women who have begun to establish themselves in their Houses...
...initiated following the report of a joint committee. The committee was set up in 1967 by President Pusey and M. I. T. President Howard Johnson, with Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Harvard Medical School and Dr. Jerome B. Weisner, provost of M. I. T., as co-chairmen...
...letter yesterday to Dean May, the House chairmen of Eliot. Mather, Leverett, and Kirkland-the four all-male Houses-complained that the co-residency plan proposed by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) would increase inequities between the Houses...
...record books, the score of last week's competition among House Democrats will have to read Aging Conservatives 4, Youngish Reformers 0. The oldsters in the party caucus defeated several moves: to 1) set an age limit of 70 for committee chairmen; 2) restrict them to eight years of service; 3) elect a Northern liberal instead of a Southern conservative to the Ways and Means Committee; 4) oust one incumbent chairman. Yet the ferment itself indicated the changing tone in the tradition-minded House of Representatives; the seniority system is no longer sacrosanct...
...Small Shift. That a vote was taken at all represented some gain for reform, since the appointment of chairmen on the basis of seniority had been virtually automatic since 1910. Last month, each party decided to empower its caucus with what amounts to a veto over such selections. The vote last week was the first attempt...