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Harvard’s bastion of sex bloggers, date auctions, tryst-ready singles, and suds-laden revelry will soon be easier to keep tabs on thanks to a recent decision by the Mather House Committee (HoCo) to resurrect a slightly more dated—and less salacious—institution: the house newspaper...
...This is something that no other house has,” said Mathews, who is a Crimson editorial editor. “We really feel that Mather HoCo has been one of the most outrageous and off-the-wall HoCos, and this newspaper is going to be just another thing that sets it apart...
According to Mather HoCo Co-chair Nitesh Banta ’08, the focus of the new publication is not necessarily meant to be as sober as that of other newspapers...
...Should HoCos take over the fund and end its randomization, as some advocate, they would be forced to make the fraught decision of who in their House is most deserving or most capable of throwing a “good” party. While HoCos would certainly be in a better position to make that assessment than the UC, it is a judgment that should not be made at all. As Avery A. Cavanah ’08, co-chair of Dunster HoCo pointed out, making HoCos into administrators and enforcers of a party fund would poison the social dynamic...
...There’s a lot of advantages of having HoCo do it, but if the UC were able to reform its pure randomization process...then I think overall it’s a better situation because you have the whole campus involved in the social scene,” Gillis said after the meeting...