Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bender agreed that University officials should have met with a group representing the student body before issuing the rent rise order and promised closer contact in the future between University Hall and delegates of the College...
Increased rent prices are only the first in a series of rising costs, Dean Bender told a Student Council committee yesterday, as the three-man body took the first step in its investigation of the recent increase. Bender assured the group, however, that no undergraduate with an otherwise satisfactory record will be removed from the College as a result of the price hike...
Robert L. Fischelis '50, Joseph S. Rancatore '50, and President Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, of the Student Council, will take the air tonight at 9:30 o'clock over WHRV for a radio discussion of the recent rent increase. They will treat the topic as a case study...
...reason can be found to expect the Houses and dormitories to produce a $100,000 "traditional" surplus for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Increased room rents for non-House purposes penalize those living in the dormitories, yet leave commuters and married students untouched. Why such a distinction should exist is not clear. A still more vital objection to the $100,000 tithe is that a rent rise hurts the veteran more than a boost in tuition. For an increase in rent must come from the veteran's meager subsistence allowance, or, if that is used up, from his personal...
...boost is really necessary to cover rising costs, and it is not a hidden, unnecessarily expensive, and poorly distributed rise in tuition, Housemasters and housing officials should take advantage of the situation to eliminate current confused and unfair room rent discrepancies. The cases of occupants of small, evamped rooms being charged higher rents than those living in more spacious and desirable suites are too numerous under the present sealing system for current prices to seem other than haphazard. Any increase in rent affords a perfect opportunity to iron out these iniquities...