Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Zeph Stewart, master of Lowell House, may have viewed his proposal to scrap the one-to-one ratio at the Quadrangle Houses as a simple resolution to provoke discussion of the housing issue, the new Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life representatives did not share his opinion...
...Stewart's plan is implemented there is no guarantee that there would be a ratio approaching one-to-one in any House. The stipulation that a minimum number of women be set for each House would only further ensure that women could not find a co-equal living arrangement on more than a small entry-by-entry basis...
...need for a larger community not dominated by men would not be met by Stewart's alternative proposal to designate one River House and one Quad House as one to one. The three Quad Houses are integrally linked by Hilles Library, their other Quad Houses are integrally linked by Hilles Library, their other shared facilities and their location apart from the other undergraduate Houses. To remove the equalized ratios in any of these Houses would disrupt them for the entire Quadrangle community...
Last year, Stewart's suggestion was greeted with a storm of protest by students in both the Quad and the River Houses. Earlier in the year, students in South House petitioned the Radcliffe and Harvard Administrations to maintain the present ratios at the Quad. For an overwhelming majority of those people who now live at the Quad, the equal ratios are one of the main reasons for their choosing to remain there. Stewart's proposal, which would change the make-up of the Quad as early as next year, ignores this fact...
...long as men and women are not admitted to this university on an equal basis, the need for a community more equitable than Harvard's must be recognized by CHUL and the College administration. Stewart's proposal should once again he rejected...