Word: group
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Student groups have become the lifeblood of the campus; their plays, performances, fundraising dances and cultural events provide much-needed social events open to everyone. But current space allocations are not sufficient. Relegated to the basement of Lowell Lecture Hall and similar inconvenient locations, many groups get the message that they are merely marginal to the College. Office space is the best way for a group to ensure its survival; without an office, groups frequently dissolve as seniors graduate and no one is left to continue the organization. Yet only a lucky few groups have offices in the coveted Yard...
...problem facing the House system is quite different. While student groups are growing in number but lacking in resources, Houses are feeling the effects of decreased student involvement. Post-randomization, students no longer have the social ties within their Houses that existed before. The administration's decision to reduce blocking group size was an admission that something needs to be done to increase community within the Houses. But will smaller blocking groups alone increase House community...
...affiliating student groups with Houses, I believe the problems facing both groups and the larger campus community can be alleviated. The Student Group-House Affiliation proposal which is presently being brought to the Masters asks that each House donate one room as a student group office. In order to operate, many student group leaders say that their organization needs only a filing cabinet, a phone line and a computer. By outfitting the student group offices with these amenities, resources could be shared among the groups, helping to ensure the survival of many valuable undergraduate organizations...
Furthermore, as a benefit of affiliation, student groups could receive the guidance of House faculty and members of the Senior Common Room; this affiliation could provide the student group with the advising that is currently lacking in the merely nominal association of faculty "advisors." Finally, groups would benefit by being granted preferences to the reservation of House facilities such as JCRs, dining halls, classrooms and private dining halls. This system of preferences in a student group's own House would do much to improve the confusing and complicated process of room reservation that currently exists...
Houses would similarly benefit from affiliation. Each House would be home to many more cultural, musical, political and community-service groups which would add character to the House of their affiliation. Social life would return to the Houses as student groups held larger, campus-wide events in conjunction with the House community. House spirit would improve as each student group contributed to the sense of community and House personality by providing events and services that were non-alcoholic, non-exclusive and non-discriminatory in nature. Furthermore, the College could oversee this through a pre-existing organizational structure that allows...