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...went before an RGA meeting ostensibly to explain the College's precarious financial position (it faces a $130,000 deficit this year), but ended up by denying that she had ever promised off-campus students $65 a year subsidies to pay for their own breakfasts...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Broken Promises | 10/19/1966 | See Source »

According to Cliffies, the College proposed the break-fast subsidy plan after students complained about higher room and board rates. The new rules required off-campus students, even those living several blocks from the Quad, to contract for three meals a day, instead of the one they had been taking...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Broken Promises | 10/19/1966 | See Source »

Cliffies argued--and with good reason--that it was inconvenient to make a long trek each morning to the Quad; if they had to do that, they said, the richer off-campus residents would simply buy their own breakfast food and the less well off would refuse to move off campus. The College--already in a housing bind even without this threat of insurrection--quickly offered break-fast subsidies...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Broken Promises | 10/19/1966 | See Source »

This fall has seen the confusion and uncertainty of previous housing crises multiplied. Many students are being put up in temporary "barracks"; others are either moving unexpectedly off-campus, losing rooms promised them in the Spring, or being forced to take in an extra roommate. Harvard has an obligation to limit this confusion as much as possible. One clear way is to abandon its traditionally hostile attitude towards off-campus living--if only temporarily while the Housing shortage persists. It should not keep one House's off-campus quota down, if others go unfilled. It should make sure that students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing: Massive Miscalculation | 6/28/1966 | See Source »

...traditional argument against off-campus living is that it is damaging to the House system. But under the present circumstances, the conversion of more suites and the early-year administrative chaos may be more damaging still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing: Massive Miscalculation | 6/28/1966 | See Source »

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