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Supporters of the council action planned to personally contact a resident of each Mather House suite last night to encourage participation in the event, Diana said...
...trying to show Fox that students are not going to accept this sitting down," William S. Friedman '79, treasurer of the Mather House Council, said yesterday, adding "We're the focal point of the issue, but it isn't just us we're concerned about--we want breakfast at all 12 Houses...
About 150 residents will march from Mather and Dunster Houses to Leverett Charles L. Diana '78, chairman of the council, predicted yesterday...
DEAN FOX'S DECISION to limit hot breakfasts to four Houses and his subsequent announcement that neither Mather nor Dunster would be one of the four represents at best an inexcusable ignorance of student preferences for living conditions and at worst a conscious and paternalistic disregard for student and worker input in general. Fox and other administrators decided the breakfast issue as though from an ivory tower, making little effort to ascertain student opinion on the subject--and so chose an unimaginative plan that almost no one likes...
...North House students, University Hall administrators seem to have actively avoided student comment before making their decision, as is evidenced by the responses of surprise and opposition from CHUL and several House committees. At the risk of catering to sectionalism, it is safe to say that the exclusion of Mather and Dunster Houses from the hot breakfast group is a short-sighted move, one that is insensitive to its impact on already unpopular Mather. To argue that the Mather-Dunster kitchen must be closed for breakfast to obtain maximum savings is specious: if the hot breakfast is to be rotated...