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...course the parietal movement was doomed from the start. Everyone knew that the Committee on Houses would turn down whatever kind of proposal was presented, because in December it had already done something about parietals, and that was quite enough for this year. As Master Gill put it bluntly, "There can only be so much reconsideration of the issue. It is really too soon to go through all of the searching and evaluation again...
...preferred to go unnamed, said the night before the vote, "You know, this committee doesn't like to feel it is being pushed. It likes to take everything very slowly and deliberately. I don't think there is much hope for any changes now." He was right. According to Gill, the committee's official spokesman, the issue was pushed aside very quickly, almost as if it were just a silly nuisance...
Another reason for refusing the change was that the proposal had not gone through the proper channels, the Masters said. Not only did it happen too fast, without time for all that "searching and evaluation" that Gill talked about, but it came from a single House. "Many of them thought that they should not be bothered by a proposal coming from one House or from one individual," Stewart said. "They thought that it should come from the HUC, a more representative body...
According to Miss Gill, the University "would still have the right to collect existing rents, keep the building in repair, and treat the tenants decently...
...Miss Gill, an already-announced candidate for the City Council, claimed that the tenants would have the support of Students for a Democratic Society, "people opposed to the Inner Belt," and other Cambridge groups in any action they might take against Harvard...