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...recent retirement of several senior Masters, including Dunn, Kenneth R. Andrews of Leverett, and Evon Z. Vogt this year of Kirkland House, has prompted both the administration and the Masters to take another look at the job of Master. This fall, Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of housing, compiled an unofficial list detailing the Master's responsibilities. Four areas emerged: providing educational leadership, setting a tone, handling day to day operations and representing the House externally...
...Dingman describes educational leadership as consisting of recruiting, appointing and nurturing members of the Senior Common Room, overseeing House tutorials and seminars, ensuring sound management and pre-professional advising, and being regularly available to advice students. Setting a tone involves continual attention to the House as a living community hosting social events and supporting House extracurricular life Day today operations include attention to the budget and "crisis management." Finally, representing the House externally means keeping abreast of College policy, attending faculty meetings and acting as Bok's spokesman to students...
Masters still may accomplish these tasks in whatever way-they choose. But they now work within somewhat more of an administrative framework than in the past meeting once a week with Dingman and other College officials and discussing issues put forth by an executive committee. One issued discussed at length in this format was the fall's controversy over alcohol politely, when College officials' attempts to monitor alcohol at Halloween parties sparked debate over just now much leeway Masters should have in interpreting College policy...
...precisely the formal structure which has drawn recent attention, prompted in part by the complaint that while the Masters and even certain student members of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) can attend faculty meetings, the co-Masters and assistant Masters cannot. Dingman's attention to this situation stems from his concern for the "unfortunate message" which he sees being conveyed to undergraduate women...
Last week's statement by Associate Dean for Housing Thomas A. Dingman '67--that because this summer's arrangements are only temporary, they did not need to have been reviewed by students--shows a gross insensitivity. That lack of concern is also reflected in another suggestion by Dingman and others--that high maintenance costs and the "need" for more summer school rooms and even squash courts may eventually spell the end of on-campus storage altogether...