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...really hope we can keep Bob. He makes the dining hall a personal family place." Martha P. Leape, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, said yesterday...
...trustees meet four times a year, but an executive committee meets monthly to conduct more immediate business. "The executive committee does the nitty-gritty stuff," Burr says. Their composition is much less homogeneous than the Corporation's--the mix of alumni, parents, academics, businessmen and professionals (not to mention the presence of women and minority group members) make the Radcliffe trustees more like Harvard's Board of Overseers than the Corporation. (The Overseers are a larger group that meets less frequently than the Corporation and advises the University on non-financial matters...
...Trustees approve a lot of decisions that are made for them by the deans that have to do with educational matters," Burr says...
...regular agenda. We're not anxious to proliferate bureaucracies," he adds. If the Joint Policy Committee "continues to exist" on paper, it is ready to be called to the board room if and when the occasion arises. "You can never tell when something will call it up." says Burr, adding that because it has no staff and pays no salaries, the Committee does not threaten to hurt anyone or anything. "Supposing it never meets," he asks, and adds quickly, "there's no harm done...
...separates it from the run-of-the-mill University committee. The Joint Policy Committee is, in essence, the last resort--the place where the buck may finally stop on the long and tortuous administrative path. "It's really there to settle thorny problems." says senior corporation member Francis H. Burr '35 who sits on the committee. "I like to think of it as a safety valve...