Radcliffe Admits 182 Harvard Men, Increasing Resident Total to 375

Radcliffe has accepted and assigned to Houses over 75 per cent of the 242 Harvard men who asked to move there next year, bringing the total number of men to 375-ten more than this year.

Additional spaces for men at Radcliffe may open up if Radcliffe women continue to apply for Harvard rooms next year, Dean Epps said yesterday. His office, which processed the Harvard applications, is still receiving Radcliffe applications for transfer to Harvard, Epps said.

Women will be allowed to continue filing such applications indefinitely, Epps said, but only for residence in Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Mather and Winthrop Houses.

More men applying to Radcliffe would have been accepted, he said, "except that about 100 fewer women asked to move down here than we had originally anticipated." All of the 252 women who have applied thus far for Harvard Houses have been accepted.

"Radcliffe students got a lot of flak back from women now at Harvard about being treated as token females,"Genevieve Austin, Radcliffe dean of Residence, said yesterday, when asked why more women did not apply for Harvard Houses.

"I don't think the problem will solve itself until the overall female-male ratio changes to something better than the present 1-4," she said.

Epps said his office had approved all 147 of the Harvard freshman requests for transfer in order to "help preserve the class balance at Radcliffe." Only 35 of the 95 upperclassmen who applied were accepted. Sophomores were selected only from Mather House, Epps said, "because Mather is now overloaded with sophomores." Juniors were taken from a number of Houses, he added.

First Choice

All the Harvard juniors and most of the sophomores and freshmen received their first choice of Radcliffe Houses, Austin said yesterday. All the men who asked first for North or South Houses were given their preference, she said.

The number of men living at Radcliffe will increase next year from 365 to 375. The remaining 660 spaces will be divided about equally between freshman women and upper-class women.

In North and South Houses, the female-male ratio will be about 2-1. Currier House, with 234 women and 80 men, will have a 3-1 ratio. "Very few Currier House women decided to move to Harvard and we wanted to save 95 spaces for incoming freshman women." Austin said.

Ratios

About 450 women will be living at Harvard next year, scattered through-out the Houses. Female-male ratios will range from 1-2.2 in Adams House to 1-400 in Leverett.

Asked why so many men asked to live at Radcliffe, Austin said. "The kind of men that Radcliffe appeals to are those that like an open community. They like the casual living here. At Radcliffe we don't have the claustrophobic qualities of the Harvard Houses."