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...reviewing committee is an innovation in itself. It marks the first time the charity drive has consulted outside organizations in drafting its recommended list. Members of the committee included Gerald Ginsburg '66 the drive's research chairman. Dean Monro, and representatives of the CRIMSON, PBH, Crimson...
...nine-man Faculty committee, including four Deans, will make all decisions on the distribution of freshmen; neither students nor Faculty will be formally asked to state their preferences. If a freshman has a "substantial reason" for prefering one House over the others, he must write a letter to Dean Monro stating it. The Masters, similarly, will be "free to inform the committee of general manpower needs they would like to have considered, as well as particular students they may hope to have assigned to them...
Hard as it is to believe, the new plan looks worse. Its only virtue is that it frees the Masters' time. Beyond that, it has substantially eliminated student choice, for very few freshmen are likely to be committed enough to one House to write Dean Monro a letter. Furthermore, as one Master commented last spring, the new plan may lead to a massive system of string-pulling. If a freshman happens to know the right people, he may be included on a Master's list of requests; if not, he is unlikely to have a good enough reason to convince...
...Monro suggested that even the Faculty may want to review Administrative Board procedures, since it is a standing committee of the Faculty. "The HPC is entitled to a thorough, straightforward answer to its request," he said...
...seven years as Dean of the College, Monro said, "there have been only one or two cases" in which there was any uncertainty about the facts involved. "Most cases that come to the Board are not severe anyway," he added. In an average year the Board "severs the connection" of about 15 undergraduates...