Word: rus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RUS poll conducted last Thursday and Friday showed that a predominant number of women living at Harvard were dissatisfied with the current ratios, and wanted more women in their Houses...
...RUS, responding to the CHUL subcommittee recommendation, proposed that a limited number of Houses go coed next year, with each coed dorm having a 2:1 male: female ratio...
...RUS also asked that a clause be added to the CHUL plan allowing movement between the Houses in special cases...
...committee ratified the RUS request to extend the deadline for room applications to an undetermined future date because of "the incredible amount of confusion" in understanding the OHUL plan. Dean May said that the sub-committee would have to meet again to consider other proposals suggested by the RUS...
Defending the position against full co-residency, one RUS member answered, "Given the four-to-one male-female ratio at Harvard, any housing plan geared to maximizing happiness will maximize the happiness of the men. If a limited number of Houses go co-ed with a two-to-one, or even a one-to-one ratio, then men in the other Houses will realize the gross imbalance in the University and fight with us to increase the number of women at Harvard...