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NEXT WEEK, on the 350th anniversary of Harvard's founding, the College is throwing a special party for undergraduates. The odds are that you're not invited...
...efforts to solicit the views of any wider segment of the student population. They made no effort to seek the advice of the Undergraduate Council, the only arguably representative body in the College. Nevertheless, Undergraduate Council Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87 and other council members were aware of the 350th planners' intentions almost every step of the way, and they betrayed the people who elected them by failing to raise objections...
Beyond a few exceptions, Epps says, the undergraduate 350th offers something for everyone. And of course, the dean is right. If you can't dance beneath an ice sculpture of John Harvard or dine with the master of John Harvard's alma mater, you can always attend the Harvard-Cornell football game, or listen to a "New England Bandstand Concert" featuring various undergraduate performing groups...
...presence of distinguished alumni and affiliates in the houses," so pompously promoted for the 350th, is supposed to be an everyday occurrence. The fact that it takes a very special occasion indeed to bring Henry Rosovsky to Mather House offers an honest but ironic commentary on the distance between undergraduates and Harvard's elder elite...
...weeks ago, before the general student population returned to Cambridge, Harvard's alumni and elder elite celebrated the 350th at special party of their own. The powers that be left all but a few token undergraduates out of that celebration; now, they are leaving us out of the celebration that is ostensibly...