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...expansion gives women’s hockey a much higher ratio between the number of teams in Division I and the number that will qualify for the eight-team field than other NCAA sports...
...years ago—it has been Radcliffe, which used to be the women’s college here at Harvard, that has helped to define my undergraduate experience and my understanding of my university and its history. That history is still unfolding, and the shockingly imbalanced ratio of female to male tenured Harvard faculty alone makes clear that there are still miles to go before we sleep. (Only 18.3 percent of senior faculty members are women.) Yet at the same time, and informed by my knowledge of both Harvard’s and Radcliffe’s past...
Unfortunately, the HIPC initiative is flawed. To begin with, it measures “debt sustainability” as the ratio of a country’s annual exports to its debt burden, a problematic metric which renders impoverished nations such as Haiti, Bangladesh, and Nigeria ineligible for assistance. If a country receives HIPC status it must then agree to strict macroeconomic conditions—such as limits on government spending—which are intended to keep deficits low and inflation down. In practice, however, these constraints often force indebted nations to impose user fees on health and education...
...gender ratio evened out in the Quad, residents, particularly male athletes who had been relocated to the Quad to rectify the gender imbalance in the early 1970s , demanded equality with the river houses. Once-a-day shuttle service was introduced in 1973, and the QRAC was built in 1978. But the Quad’s heyday as a bohemian haven ended with the controversial Fox Plan of 1977, which introduced a ‘limited choice’ system by which students could list their top three residential choices. Then-Dean of the College John...
Just because the Quad no longer isolates a particular constituency doesn’t mean it doesn’t isolate at all. While it may be a small-scale representation of the College as a whole, with the same ratio of varsity sports players, artists and pre-med students as the other houses. The Quad still splits the campus. And while Harvard’s Houses divided have managed to stand, the distance between them makes it more difficult for Quad students to attend classes and participate in extracurriculars, strains many first-year friendships to the breaking point, complicates...