Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snarls in administration that developed during the past decade were not necessarily inherent in the system, as the preliminary studies of the HCUA rent committee demonstrated, but rather a result of continued negligence in revising the rent structure. Unfortunately the Administration had little desire even to look at the committee's work...
Although the Administration has pointed to the Yard and other colleges as examples of smoothly functioning standard rent plans, the argument from analogy is not completely successful. In the Yard, for instance, remodeling of old dorms has removed severe inequities in room arrangements. And the fact that there have been few complaints is probably more a result of freshman bewilderment and a feeling that all will be better in the Houses...
...total rent pool remains the same, but now the scholarship office will, in effect, have to provide some of the money previously gleaned from high priced rooms. The money required to increase scholarship stipends, therefore, is available and could have been used for purposes other than rent compensation had there been so change in the rent structure. It might, for example, have helped to soften the effect of the new tuition increase or the board raise which will necessarily come within the next few years...
...rent adjustment fund will be of some help to those not on scholarships, but a revision of the current sent adjustment system might have worked just as well. In any event, the standard tariff removes one of the few remaining flexibilities in a student's budget, and that flexibility could have served both the student and the College...
...accord in the Administration and among the Masters should not be lightly dismissed, nor should the advantages of the system be overlooked. But before the system can yield positive results a great deal of additional thinking and planning must be done. In the end, a carefully devised multi-level rent plan may look attractive after...