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...Crimson lauded the candidates’ proposal for “an unprecedented party fund” that provided eight $50 subsidies each week to encourage students to host parties. Elected by an overwhelming majority, the UC under Chopra and Stannard-Friel formally established the party grant program in 2003. According to UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, Chopra sought outside legal counsel who indicated there would be no legal liability on the University’s part...
...party grant program aroused no public complaint from the Dean’s Office at the time of its establishment. One explanation for the administration’s reserve might have involved a comprehensive student-satisfaction survey administered in 2002 to 31 elite institutions, in which Harvard ranked fifth from the bottom. While the results were leaked to The Boston Globe in 2005, a former administrator told The Crimson last year that orders had come from the very top as early as 2002 to improve Harvard’s social scene. Then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, added the individual...
...While the debate over the feasibility and implications of the new regulations governing social clubs had plowed on for several months, Dean Pilbeam’s public call for the termination of party grants instantly brought the discourse about alcohol to a new level among students. Concerns about the UC party grant program had been raised by both House Masters and residential deans last spring. The deans and the UC Executive Board continued to work together in apparent good faith over the summer to make the necessary changes to appease all the major stake-holding parties...
...Among the changes made by the UC to the party grant system was a removal of the requirement to advertise UC-funded parties on House open-lists because of complaints from some of the resident deans, an immediate notification sent to the resident deans informing them of what rooms had been awarded grants, and two check boxes on the application confirming that any alcoholic beverages would only be purchased by and served to those who were over 21 years...
...legal advice over the summer. “They did not tell Dean Kidd or [Assistant Dean of Harvard College] Paul McLoughlin that the program was illegal,” says Petersen, “Rather, based on its assessment, Dean Kidd and Paul McLoughlin determined that the party grant program must be discontinued...