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...years, the Council has been infamous forits Old Boys' Network, a system that members sayis not exactly conscious but is perpetuated by anall-male executive board that shows no intentionsof giving up the status quo. "I think that in oursociety, men still professionally tend to hang outtogether," says former UC Vice-Chair Melissa Garza'94. According to Garza, female Council memberswho spent hours working on a special project orcommittee often found their efforts ignored ormarginalized by male Council members. "Therewas-and still is-a tendency for men to speak tomen, which really works against the women [on theCouncil]," she says...
...always easy to keep with the status quo," Tomassoni said Saturday night. "I thought we needed a more consistent offensive effort if we were going to make any noise later on-in hindsight, of course, I wouldn't have made any changes...
Actually, the best solution may be the good old status quo--which surprisingly has a good deal of planning and thinking behind it. Trying to put the University's imprimutaur on what is only a rough sense of unfairness among undergraduates would be a practical disaster. There is no reason to believe that a necessarily imprecise attempt to identify which classes are most labor intensive would be an advance for justice...
...discussion at yesterday's meeting focused on four different options: preserving the status quo of non-ordered choice with four houses; raising the number of houses first-years can request from four to six; completely randomizing first-years into houses at the end of their first year; or placing first-years into houses before they come to Harvard (as Yale University has done for years...
...report suggested three models: a faculty "superdean," divisional deans or the status quo...