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Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 is currently considering a proposal that would establish an overflow reserve of more than 100 rooms. Harvard would rent any unused space to graduate students and other affiliates. The plan is sound, as long as new housing remains as a buffer. If the reserve space should become another Claverly Hall by default, another nook and cranny for cramming in extra students, it would defeat the purpose of the plan...
...frustration in dealing with her is that she's not a decision-maker, just essentially a buffer for the real decison-makers, whoever they are," says City Councilor David Sullivan. "But she does do a good job of transmitting community sentiment," he adds...
Efforts by the student-faculty Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) to create a two-day buffer period during reading period stalled yesterday when the committee decided the issue needed further study before being put to a vote by the Faculty Council...
...primary causes of all this talk are classes that continue with papers and exams well into reading period. There is no reason to believe that the people who teach these classes will not simply extend the work into the "buffer period" of two days despite efforts to restrict work during that period. As Mr. Barron and Mr. Saal pointed out, reading period was "originally set aside...as lecture-free time." Yet, CUE Chairman Dean Steven Ozment himself said "No faculty member will dictate to another how to teach their courses. Once you're in a class you play...
...right. Since the CUE is perfectly willing to let this continue, its response is to make reading period longer. But, the professors in question have already managed to take over the normal reading period despite its avowed purpose. There is no reason why they will not intrude into the "buffer" days. On the contrary, there is reason to believe that these professors will take over this "buffer period". Consider Dean Ozment's admonition that faculty will not dictate to faculty how to run classes. In essence, the CUE is planning a tactical retreat doomed to failure...