Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principal source of house funding has been house masters, some of whom regularly give a little of their own money to house committees or societies. For example, Dunster House Master Sally Falk Moore gives the house committee about $1000 a year, though the house committee co-chairmen like to keep that money as a buffer...
HOUSE BUDGETS aren't just a matter of bragging rights for committee chairmen, though. The house bank account profoundly affects the quality of house life--from the number of parties a house throws, to whether a house has a wide screen TV or an active drama society with more than one production and a makeshift set, or an intramural hockey team with enough equipment, or elaborate spring formals...
...house committee chairmen and treasurers at Harvard are dependent on some very precarious, unpredictable financial sources. Collecting house dues is chancy. While Eliot House gets about an 80 percent return on dues collection, at other houses, like North, more than a third of students haven't paid up. Lowell and Kirkland just implemented a house dues system and don't know whether they can rely on students...
...while everyone is uncertain where their money is coming from, they at least have a ballpark number. Some chairmen feel poor and worry whether their next party is going to cost so much it will break them for the rest of the year...
...some chairmen are not anxious to be extravagant. "Currier has been able to have parties all the time. But I don't like extravagance personally," says Glen T. Meakem '86, house committee chairman of Lowell, whose balls are run by the house Music Society. "We have benefits that they don't have. Currier needs a lot of money to make up for their location. They have to work hard to create a better environment. We don't have to work half as hard to make things pleasant. We have a beautiful picturesque building, and we're in the center...