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While exactly what "hodge-podge of lesser services" implies remains hazy, it can be taken with some certainty to mean activities which are not centrally connected to the academic function of the University. Included in this category would be organizations such as PBH which have striven over the years to achieve an active involvement and rapport with the Cambridge and Boston communities...
Taken in this light the recent announcement of PBH's financial difficulties cannot be overlooked. PBH has been denied a permanent subsidy for reasons which, in keeping with the Administration's usual technique for verbal foreplay, sound wonderfully logical and reasonable at first glance, but appear later on to be little else than intellectual pretense. The intimation that the "professionalism" of the programs is somehow responsible for PBH's inability to accommodate a number of students is patently absurd; that the committee impede funding because these students could not be accommodated is ludicrous. It is fairly obvious that denying funding...
There is a tendency in situations such as this to cry wolf, charging political repression, and only later find out that a mere misunderstanding was at fault. There are those who would point to the incident in which PBH allowed the Panthers to speak in their building after the University refused to provide a place. There are those who would remark that the University has never been particularly delighted with PBH's consistent record of anti-war and community organizing activity. There may indeed be a connection between such feelings and the denial of a subsidy, but that...
...think it is important for the Harvard community to confront the issue that underlies this discussion-should PBH receive support from the University at a minimal and reasonable level? The report of the subcommittee and the recommendations of the CSCR display an indifference both to the kinds of educational opportunities PBH offers and to the role it plays in a variety of settings outside the University. PBH has no policy of excluding or of discouraging undergraduates from volunteering. The contrary is the case. The subcommittee or members of the full Committee never sought to explain why our membership was highest...
...well not have been the intention of the CSCR to jeopardize the further operation of PBH. But that is the effect of their decision and of the prospective cut in the building budget. No single implied or explicit criticism can be better helped through these financial cut-backs. Their stringency is great enough to make it natural, if perhaps mistaken, for people at PBH to feel they are being punished and placed on probation. The Committee on Students and Community Relations has served itself, PBH, and the Harvard community badly. It is they who should support their criticisms and make...