Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This incident is just another reminder that formal University ties to the ROTC program should remain severed. Let's keep ROTC and AIDS testing off the Harvard campus...
...committee could have solicited more input. The planning committee, if time had permitted last spring, could have asked the house committees and the Undergraduate Council to take an active role in planning the celebration, instead of just reponding to it. Perhaps, as I have suggested, a free, campuswide, semi-formal dance in Tercentenary Theater might have replaced the ball. Yes, more input would have created a better celebration...
...already long bill another $30 for tickets and the $100-$300 women will have to fork over for a formal dress...
...have my own tuxedo, but--I must confess--I didn't buy it in anticipation of the 350th ball. Unfortunately, the event's planners, whoever they are (I sure didn't get a chance to vote for them), failed to foresee that many Harvard undergrads don't have formal wear just waiting in the closet for a night on the town...
Worse yet, they may not have remembered that two-thirds of the students here receive some form of financial aid, and coughing up the hundreds of dollars required to be socially acceptable at this "very special event" may impose some form of hardship. When it comes to formal wear, it is virtually impossible to look good at Filene's Bargain Basement prices...