Word: eisert
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...GOING to play a little hardball with the administration on the Widener issue and even send a letter to Dean Spence," Richard S. Eisert '88 said last week before beating out an empty field of challengers to retain the Undergraduate Council's top position. Eisert was referring to council initiatives to open the Widener stacks on Sunday while menacing the top man in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dean A. Michael Spence, with direct correspondence...
Richard S. Eisert '88, president of the Undergraduate Council and former chair of the residential committee thinks that a variable meal plan wouldn't work for Harvard. "Most of the cost is for labor to run all the halls--for a person to miss a meal doesn't save money. Besides, the house dining halls are the center of social life here and another system would jeopardize that," Eisert says...
However, last year the council debated a plan by which students could pick up a coupon at the checker's desk if they were going to miss a meal and then redeem it at one of the house grills or the independently-run Greenhouse Cafe in the Science Center, Eisert says. "But the grills couldn't afford it--they barely break even as it is--and the Greenhouse would only offer $1 of credit," he adds...
...going to be able to do is to try and enjoy the food, since they won't have much choice but to eat it. "The food service people are very receptive to suggestions--they're very happy to listen to us--but they need a lot more student input," Eisert says...
That is not the kind of council undergraduates pay to support. the term bill fee should fund advocates of student's interests. The council members indicated last semester that they do not share that view of their role when they raised no objection when Eisert joined one of the final clubs that students drove off campus for being undemocratic and detrimental to the College's social life...