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Once more the American Veterans Committee has stepped forward to plug a leaky hole in the University's facade. In the past, AVC committees have scraped up housing for married veterans, and found College rooms for hard-pressed commuters who had to rise at dawn to make a 10 o'clock class. Now the problem is the substantial rent increase for next term, announced by the University on February 15. AVC declares that it is ready to assist students who find that this new expense will plow too heavily into their budgets. A special AVC committee, which is already investigating...
...University should spare no effort to make AVC's job a minor one, however. Some of the official reasons for raising rents at all are decidedly open to doubt; a ham-handed administration of next fall's unpleasantness will surely do little to quiet these suspicions. Of course, some hardship cases will certainly result from the increase. But these must be cut to a minimum by careful and efficient methods. A torrent of student demands for redress will only indicate that the University has botched its policy. What is now a rather low and indistinct undergraduate grumbling pointed...
...AVC spokesman John A. Quisenberry '46, chairman of the Housing Committee and a member of the newly-formed group to protest the rent rises, voiced the opinion that the University had not exhausted all the sources at its power before upping student prices...
After thanking vice-President Reynolds for the "assistance and sincere co-operation" he had afforded them, the AVC group attacked the College's plan to get a $100,000 surplus from the Houses and dormitories for transfer to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and suggested that instead, surplus funds of the Department of Arts and Sciences be used to meet dormitory costs...
Members of the Executive Committee elected last night are: William L. Rusher 2L, president of the Young Republican Club; Frederic D. Houghteling '50, president of the Liberal Union; Raquel Heller '48 of the Radcliffe League for Democracy; Douglass Cater 1PA; Stanley G. Karson '48, AVC chapter chairman; Robert E. Lane, Teaching Fellow in Government; Ruppert Emerson, professor of Government; Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy; and Payson S. Wild, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Secretary of the group will be Daniel Yarkelwitz 2G. Vice-chairman is Arthur White...