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...federal grand jury indicts seven top White House aides on charges of conspiring to impede the Watergate investigation. 3 - Golda Meir resigns unexpectedly from her position as Israeli Prime Minister. 6 - The Committee on House and Undergraduate Life votes to equalize the enrollment of men and women through either sex-blind or equal admissions. 11 - Vice President Gerald Ford accepts a Man of the Year award from the Young Republicans at the Harvard Club of Boston as several hundred demonstrators rallied outside, chanting "jail to the chief" and "dump Nixon, junk Ford." 13 - An Economics Department review committee releases...
...Despite the glitches the status of women was slowly improving. One of the last hurdles to official equality, the fixed male-female ratio, fell with remarkable speed in the spring of 1975. In one semester, an equal access plan--proposed by a faculty committee led by Leverett Professor of Physics Karl Strauch--was approved by the Faculty, Bok and the University's governing boards, the Corporation and the Board of Overseers...
...temporary side effect of this measure was overcrowding. Some Harvard alums opposed equal access, fearing a decrease in the number of men admitted to the College, and forced Harvard to admit more women while only slightly decreasing the number of men admitted...
...time I graduated, there was such a integration between Harvard and Radcliffe, that equal access only seemed to be a natural progression," Jones says. "I don't remember the campus being riveted by this issue...
...fact, the administration may have been more united in favor of equal access than students. Mintz says a main source of opposition to the measure came from women students themselves...