Word: mathers
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...Committee for Women's Studies, we are writing to protest Dean Epps's ruling against the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) women's dining hall planned for Tuesday evening, March 15 at Mather House. Epps's action reveals a lack of understanding of the history and purpose of these dining halls and demonstrates a general insensitivity to the position and interests of women on this campus. That such an event was permitted at the Radcliffe Quad for six years but prohibited any closer to the River exemplifies Harvard's ambivalence toward its merged-non-merged sisters...
Mark Kirkland, a Mather House sophomore, watched this weekend's NCAA basketball tournament from a different perspective than your average Harvard student. Not only does he stand 6-ft. 6-in. tall, but as Kirkland says, there's an added dimension when you've played against some of the players you're watching on the tube...
...cannot use the House library and part of the Junior Common Room. He must follow an outdoor route to the grille and take the freight elevator to the dining hall. He feels students like himself, less severely disabled than Drafts, should live in regular student housing. With some renovation, Mather and Leverett could more easily accomodate the disabled than other Houses. Currier is a fourth potentially accessible House but none of the shuttle buses have wheelchair lifts...
...policy should be seen as a guideline for what is desirable rather than as a rule. The RUS women's dinner clearly deserves to have an exception made for it, both because of its careful planning and the positive effect it can have. Closing the dining hall to male Mather residents for 45 minutes would cause little inconvenience. The closed class dinners, permitted, and commonly held at many Houses, involve more disruption for students than the RUS dinner would. RUS dinners have been held many times in the past, and the issue of inconvenience and University policy for Moors Hall...
Finally, the representatives of the residents of Mather, in the form of the House Council, actually voted in favor of this dinner, presumably with the wishes and interests of their constituents in mind. It seems foolish of Epps to prohibit a regular dinner that had been designed to inconvenience Mather residents as little as possible, and which residents' representatives had endorsed...