Lottery Assignments Exceed CHUL's Established Sex Ratio

Freshman housing lottery officials exceeded the 2.5-to-one male/female ceilings established by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) in assigning students to Currier and Mather Houses this year.

Thomas A. Dingman '67, associate dean of the College, said last night he was unsure of what steps he would take to remedy the situation, but he added that it is highly unlikely that the lottery will be rerun.

Glenn J. Moramarco '81, Currier House representative to CHUL. said yesterday Susan A. Neer, a housing officer, told him last Friday that an error in the computer programming process which randomly assigns freshmen to Houses caused the Currier Houses male/female ratio to exceed the established limit.

Neer refused to comment yesterday.

A computer printout posted in Currier House listed the names of 123 male and 44 female freshmen assigned to the House, a 2.8-to-one ratio, Natasha Pearl '82, a member of the House committee, said yesterday.

Mitzi White, a graduate student in Psychology who designed the computer program this spring, said yesterday the assignments to Currier exceeded the ceilings because Currier was the only unfilled House when the rooming groups who drew the worst lottery numbers came through the program.

"The program was designed so that the sex ratios would be preserved all along the line," White said. She added that she did not expect to exceed the ratio designated by CHUL, although she knew that it could happen.

Yvonne S. Turner '81, chairman of the Currier House committee, said yesterday members of the House would bring up the ratio at the next meeting of CHUL on Monday. "We have clearly decided that it's not acceptable. We want changes made in some kind of way," she added.