Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost of living spirals. This time the wage settlement amounted to an extra 38 dollars per girl. Even if this isn't tacked directly onto tuition, each girl will still lose, because the College must simply divert funds from something like libraries or scholarships. And with the cost of labor still rising, there will be more wage increases like this one. But wages are only one facet of Radcliffe's problem. There is also an imminent shortage of service workers...
Service workers today send their children to college (as one dishwasher in South House said, 'Why do you think I'm here?"). Well, people say, servants will come from somewhere. But the fact is that they won't, and rightly so, Immigration has been a limited source of domestic labor since the 1920's, and recent legislation has limited this source even further...
Faced with rising labor costs and a shrinking supply of workers, most employers, as they say in Ec 1, would substitute capital for labor. Why can't Radcliffe? Actually, the question should be, why won't Radcliffe, since there's no reason...
Radcliffe plans better and larger kitchens for the fourth house and the renovated dorms. The plans are fairly sound--cooking for larger number saves labor, as does more modern equipment. But the College is not looking far enough ahead: it is only looking for better means within a given income, where a new scheme is needed...
...Labor requirements could be greatly reduced by cutting down on the number of meals in the dining rooms. With enough small kitchen units in the dorms, girls could easily prepare their own breakfasts (many kitchenettes are planned for Currier House, expected to eliminate any meal service). As for lunches, many alternatives exist. Most girls are quite happy to cat in the yard, as Lehman's popularity testifies. Perhaps Harvard houses could be opened to Cliffies, with only a limited coffee-shop type of operation at Radcliffe. Or, the University of Pennsylvania manages with a two-meal, no-lunch contract (they...