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House reported 83 available spaces under their assigned quotas, but filling these vacancies still leaves 71 students without rooms. The COH decided last week to give first priority to students enrolled last year, then to transfer students, and finally to students returning after a leave of absence...
After parietals, the HUC faced the choice of escalating its fight with the COH to bringing girls into the dining halls every night or revamping the HUC image, making student government relevant to the shifting student concern for political issues...
...COH has precious little power. It is the administration that holds the social control over students' lives and defines the ways in which they will live at Harvard. The administration expresses its will to the COH in several ways. First, through the several administrators who sit on the Committee itself. The second, more subtle, way is through the experience of the Masters themselves; they know the fact of life that the administration has control over any decision which involves basic policy...
...inferior position of the Masters vis-a-vis the administration was illustrated in the HUC-COH debate on seating. Master Smithies asked us why we wanted seating on the Committee. We replied that we wanted to influence the important decisions: funding a new athletic building, constructing the underpass, tenth house, tuition hikes, investment and endowment decisions. Smithies was incredulous; "We're as interested as you are in changing these decisions, but you know they just can't be changed by us, that's all. Those decisions are made in the high-level stratosphere of the administration...
...Glimp can protest that "Students ARE involved in decision-making," as he has done time and time again. But it is clear that these claims are valid only in the most grossly paternalistic context. In the last five years, students have been invited to participate in several university decisions: COH subcommittee on parietals, Gill subcommttee on the tenth House, Ad Board review, Admission Committee review, House Study Committee. None of these were sincere attempts to incorporate student opinion...