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...increase in the off-campus fee, which the Corporation approved last week, is based on the questionable argument of "implied subsidization." There are, the argument goes, certain house services -- the offices of House Masters and Senior Tutors, house libraries and common rooms, and the house athletic program--whose benefits students both on and off-campus share, but whose cost, in the past, has fallen exclusively on the students in the houses. Hence the "subsidization" of off-campus by on-campus students for common services, which the $125 raise will presumably remedy...
There is a certain logic to this argument. Certainly, the house offices are essential for all students, and all students, whether on or off-campus should share their costs. But just as obvious is the fact that many of the students who move off-campus do so because they are disenchanted with life in the houses and do not want to study in house libraries and play in house sports. Having granted a student permission to live outside of the house system, it is unfair to make him pay for the very house services from which he has clearly dissociated...
...realistic in that we realize we must shape up to win the university's respect," Kaplan said yesterday. One of his proposals called for the Faculty Committee on Houses to make public the Gill report which recommended charging a special fee to students who wish to live off-campus. The COH has kept the report confidential...
...Harvard Corporation yesterday authorized a $125 increase in the fee for students who live off-campus, and a smaller increase in the room rent and board rate for students in the Houses...
Richard T. Gill '48, whose Mather House subcommittee recommended a non-resident fee raise in January, denied that the increase was part of an effort to discourage students from living off-campus. "There should be no attempt to use fees to influence the pattern of resident and non-resident living," Gill said, adding that by any calculation the fee increase falls short of covering the Houses' expenditures on non-resident students. He cited the costs of maintaining house offices, libraries, and common rooms...