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...controversial feature of the new plan is the $270 fee. Mrs. Bunting herself has admitted that the result may be to put off-campus living out of the range of the less wealthy and thus create de facto discrimination. Wealthier students were once assigned the better rooms, and that system shouldn't be unintentionally revived...
...policy of letting any senior move off-campus while charging an off-campus tax depends for its success on some delicate mathematical guesses...
Gill said his committee has determined a preliminary figure for Harvard's off-campus tax, but he is not at liberty to reveal it until further study. He did say, however, that he expects "a slight reduction in the total number of live-outs with this fee." At present, he admitted, "people can save money by living out due to the law fee [$25] which does not cover the House system's costs of non-residence...
...overall reduction which Gill expects does not necessarily mean that fewer seniors would move off than now do. About 60 juniors are off-campus this year, and this would not be permitted once Mather House opens in the Fall of 1969. Nonetheless Gill expects that the number of seniors who will want to move off will not be much greater than the 150 which the College allowed off this year. Even now, without the larger fee, Gill said, "living out has a strong appeal for a limited number of students...
...would be brought to a judgment before a student-conduct court composed of four students and four faculty members. If convicted, a student could appeal to the chancellor for a mitigation of punishment. As for clear violations of criminal law, that would be left entirely in the hands of off-campus courts...