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Over the last few months, I have become quite disillusioned with the attitude of the College's Administration toward the Committee on Housed and Undergraduate Life (CHUL). The straw that broke the camel's back is the way the Administration dealth with the recent kiosk/bulletin board legislation. At the regularly schedulaed CHUL meeting of May 5, 1980, a motion was made to assess a $25 fine for postering anywhere except on official University bulletin boards. The only mention of new bulletin boards was: "The University plans to provide bulletin boards in the Yard where posters may be placed...
College administrators followed a traditional--and reprehensible--path by railroading the new "kiosk rule" through the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) in an "emergency" meeting during reading period last spring. The kiosks greeted students as a fait accompli this fall, and despite objections by many undergraduate organizations, administrators have given every indication they will enforce the rule through warnings, fines and, ultimately, revocation of official privileges from disobedient organizations...
...CHUL and College administrators refuse to change the kiosk rule, undergraduate organizations should band together and hang their signs wherever they please--on walls, lamp-posts, doorways and windows--until Harvard returns to a policy of free expression...
Student caucus members said yesterday that when CHUL takes the issue up again, it will push for major changes in the rules, which now prohibit outdoor postering except on the kiosks, and impose stiff penalties--a $25 fine on the first violation and revocation of University privileges for repeated violations...
...kiosks out of the ground, but we will push for better maintenance, ask the University to make the rule apply only to the Yard, and see to it that if any organization is going to have its official privileges revokes, it happens only with the consent of the full CHUL, not just the dean's office," Michael G. Colantuono '83, a caucus member, said yesterday...