Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eric T. Olsen '77, manager of the Mather grill, said that security problems have continually plagued Mather House. Earlier this year vandals tore apart the Coke machines, he added, but this is the first time they have hit the pinball machines...
...light of the controversy surrounding the events which culminated in the cancellation of the RUS women's dinner to have been held March 15 in Mather House dining hall, I feel it necessary to give a firsthand account of the situation. Hopefully, the H-R community, when presented with the correct facts, will understand what the Radcliffe Union of Students women's dinners are trying to do for the women of Radcliffe and not against the men of Harvard...
...first Crimson article seemed to paint a picture of the RUS Mather House women's dinner as discriminating against men, and therefore, unwarranted. In my opinion and that of the RUS Executive Board, the article was very negative in its treatment of the event, and served only to reinforce the misconception some people have of RUS as a separatist organization...
...second Crimson article dealing with the dinner, although much less biased and far more factual, was still incomplete in its appraisal of the situation. Mather House had been contacted about the dinner several weeks in advance. The House Office had been asked permission to hold the dinner in the main dining hall. The House Council had been contacted and asked for its support. It seemed that the dinner, which would last less than an hour--from 5:15 to 6:00 p.m.--would be a successful event, approved and backed by the Mather House Office and Council...
...much publicized in the first Crimson article and, albeit to a lesser degree, was mentioned in the second. However, neither article stressed the fact that women other than dues-paying undergraduates were not invited to the RUS women's dinner either. The dinner was to be held at Mather so that RUS members from the River Houses could more easily attend the event, which had previously been held only at the Radcliffe Quad in Moors dining hall. A great many of the women in Leverett, Quincy, Eliot, etc. expressed interest in attending the monthly event, but found it difficult...