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Your editorial on the bus shuttle contained some misunderstandings. The Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life has not opted to delay a review of bus shuttle extension. To the contrary, bus shuttle extension as part of the overall desired improvements to the Quadrangle, was the very first housing recommendation to the dean. It was forwarded immediately upon being voted upon in January...
Last Wednesday's vote to send the issue immediately to sub-committee for study reflected the same sentiment about the busing issue as did your editorial. We are in agreement as to the desirability of expanding bus service (and plan to study the similar needs of Dunster and Mather Houses). Rather than wait for the administration to stop dragging its feet on the matter, we decided last Wednesday to initiate our own "systematic cost and feasibility study." Katherine Fulton '78 Winthrop House CHUL representative
Back in the press bus on the way to Logan,, Powell, New York Timesman R.W. "Johnny" Apple, Baltimore Sun man Adam Clymer '58, and Washington Post ace Jules Witcover sought refuge in the back of the bus. Witcover, who had just arrived "two days ago" in the Northeast, brooded in the back, but Apple and Powell traded banter...
...distressing therefore to learn last week that the administration has not seriously considered the masters' proposal. In addition the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life opted to delay any review of shuttle bus extension until after it dispatched its recommendations on housing, which were adopted this Wednesday. Such delay is startling for it ignores the basic connection between the housing and shuttle bus questions...
Although it is too late to include bussing extension in CHUL's housing debate, the committee should immediately begin debate on expanding shuttle bus service, and the administration should initiate a systematic cost and feasibility study, drawing heavily on student input. As soon as possible Harvard should extend shuttle bus service on campus...