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...Harvard Way" plans significantly modify the Harvard way. One plan, however, sticks strictly to tradition: the Von Stade-Peterson Plan. Under this proposal, the 100-150 "extra" women would be housed at Radcliffe, 100-150 additional female upperclassmen would move to the Harvard Houses, and 100 male upperclass volunteers would move into the Yard as advisors. Such a plan would not change the basic assumptions of the current system but would provide male freshmen with some upperclass contact. Its major disadvantage is that by decreasing the number of upperclass women, while increasing the number of freshmen, it brings the ratio...
...letters sent to the upperclass houses Friday, von Stade said he was in search of about 50 volunteers from the classes of '73 and '74 who would "live with freshmen and help them with curriculum planning and generally learning the ropes...
That unsuccessful plan was followed by a plan this Fall in which each freshman was affiliated with an upperclass house and assigned to an adviser in that house. Von Stade said that the new plan also has proved to be unacceptable...
Further plans call for moving upperclass registration to the Houses Freshmen and the GSAS will reportedly still register at separate times in Mem Hall...
During the first week after Easter vacation, the 160 Cliffies in each upperclass with the lowest lottery numbers will receive a detailed questionnaire. They will be asked to indicate the ratios of men to women they prefer, along with which Harvard Houses they want to move...