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...proposal to change the House system must achieve several goals before it should be approved. The next housing plan must retain certain fundamental alternatives for undergraduates. Currently, Currier, North and South Houses offer students a lifestyle much different from that at the River Houses. They have a mixture of four classes. This aids freshmen in adapting to House life and combines formal House staff advising with informal upperclassman counseling that Yard freshmen cannot receive. They have an almost one-to-one male-female ratio. And, the Quad Houses provide an alternative for many to the overbearing, "old Harvard" atmosphere...
...switch them would cause intolerable problems. Freshmen currently housed at the Quad are very crowded: last year's problems at Mather House will pale by comparison if sophomores are forced to live in one-room doubles at the Quad. North House alone, would have to lose 40 people to retain its current level of upperclass crowding. These 40 people must be picked up elsewhere--and that means the already overcrowded River Houses...
...student opposition to the plan will not be bought off by permitting the Quad to retain its last few advantages. This year the Quad will not accept "solutions" that only worsen its problem. And this year, the "solution" hurts students throughout the housing system, not just at the Quad. It is difficult to understand how to fight manifestly unworkable proposals; it is especially difficult during reading period. Dan Greenwood...
...Proposals rejected by faculty and students were re-introduced by Southern time after time until they were passed. Agreements reached between students and Southern were conveniently "forgotten" or "misunderstood" by Southern, and were sometimes even retracted for no apparent reason. Students have had to remain vigilant in order to retain the "privilege" (as Southern calls it) of participation in faculty meetings, a right concentrators in the department have had since its inception. Not surprisingly, a general distrust of Southern has developed among concentrators; now, this distrust is openly acknowledged among the students. Southern's paternalistic and condescending attitude towards students...
...might well subvert Reuther's legacy. In 1968 Reuther paraded his union out of the AFL-CIO, charging that the federation had become too conservative. Now the U.A.W. is tiptoeing toward reaffiliation. There are major stumbling blocks-the biggest is just how much autonomy the auto union could retain-but Fraser might conceivably preside over a reconciliation. If that happens, he could some day become a formidable contender...