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...affirmative action plan to comply with Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) regulations. Although increasing the number of minority employees, the plan draws criticism for keeping the hiring of women at a constant level. 5 - In his first major move as President, Bok lowers the male-female ratio for the Class of 1976 from 4 to 1 to 2.5 to 1. 14 - The Board of Overseers agrees to confer Harvard degrees to Radcliffe students who graduated before...
...effort to more accurately reflect the breakdown of the student body, the male-female ratio in the River houses is increased to 3 to 1; the Quad Houses, however, remain at the ratio of 1.18 to 1. 6 - Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III conducts an investigation into charges of mismanaged funds by undergraduate officers of the Harvard Model United Nations conference, held in December. The officers allegedly used funds for non-conference related expenses, such as alcohol. 23 - In separate incidents, four undergraduates are assaulted near Leverett and Mather houses by a group of six youths...
...think the ratio of Harvard guys to Radcliffe girls was about 17 to 1," Beutler says. "I certainly got my quota...
...lopsided ratio of Harvard to Radcliffe students virtually guaranteed we would have ample opportunity to meet the young men our mothers expected us to marry as the crowning achievement of our Radcliffe experience...
SHILLER Not necessarily, not with the P/E ratio. You are suggesting there is some spurious--some fallacy in that. There isn't a fallacy here. I look at past historical periods when we had similar leveling, and you know, what comes to mind is 1929. We have had a tripling of the stock market to a record high level in the past five years, and there is only one other time when that has happened, which was '24 to '29. So history doesn't encourage me to think people have suddenly learned something...