Although the committee's coed plan is binding for only next year, the committee suggested a four-year plan which would rotate the three Houses to which sophomore Cliffies could not apply. In this way, all the Houses could eventually be coed.

The May committee's plan has been criticized on the following grounds:

The all-important potential male-female ratios in each House are based on hastily assembled-and possibly incorrect-figures on how many students in each House would be willing to move to the Cliffe. In Adams House for example. the committee found only 15 men willing to move to Radcliffe for the current semester.

In the case of Mather House in particular. the committee found only 15 cut of 345 students willing to move. One reason for this low number is that almost 200 of these "students" are unoccupied or uncompleted Mather rooms which could be filled with Radcliffe students without forcing anyone to move. But instead they have been "personified" as intransigent Harvard students unwilling to move to Radcliffe.

Girls with low lottery numbers who want to move to Harvard will have to abandon friends with high numbers. In past years, roommates were allowed to average their numbers together to establish their ranking.

The potential male-female ratios in the nine Houses, figured according to May's formula, are as follows: Adams, 1:6.2; Danster, 1:5.7; Eliot, 1:5.4; Kirkland, 1:3.8; Leverett, 1:3.2; Lowell, 1:4.5; Mather, 1:6.5; Quincy, 1:3.9; and Winthrop. 1:4.0.

So how do you know if your House is going to be coed? Well, if you're a Cliffie, it's a sure, bet. If you're at Harvard, it depends on:

whether you're willing to move to the Cliffe:

If not, how many others in your House are: and

how many Cliffies can be persuaded to make your House among their top preferences.