Word: calendars
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Pappenheimer and Thimann agree that the Dunster-East program should develop only to the degree that undergraduates have the ideas and the desire for extra-curricular activities. At this point the affiliation has involved only Dunster's sending of its calendar to East and East's invitation for Dunster men to join a madrigal group. Pappenheimer remarked that he expected the exchange program to increase interest in music, drama, the art workshop, and the seminars of the Houses...
Adding further confusion, the new prohibition evidently does not apply to publications such as the Harvard Student Calendar, Cambridge 38, and the CRIMSON. In addition, the Masters of Quincy and Eliot Houses were prepared to continue to allow the distribution of House newspapers and notices door-to-door...
Part of the difficulty comes from the added competition of HSA publications, although the amount of advertising revenue taken in by the Calendar would hardly suffice to keep the many publications at the College solvent if it were split among them. The Calendar itself loses money...
Burke justifies the continued subsidy of the Calendar by pointing out that it provides a needed service to the University. It supposedly gives each Administrative department guaranteed access to students' rooms with all official notices and memoranda--a list of employment opportunities, for example. This, however, is a task for the University itself to tackle; there is no reason for a nominally independent student business organization to pay for a service which the University Printing Office could offer. Individual students pay the cost in higher HSA prices while student publications suffer from a needless loss of advertising revenue...
...itself decides to concentrate on issues more basic than cracked beer-mugs and scratched rings. The HSA's employment practices, its expansionist tendencies and charges of monopolistic practices all need to be studied, and the HSA must learn to respond to the non-commercial needs of the community. Biographical Calendar vignettes alone will not solve the problem.DUSTIN M. BURKE...