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Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 has agreed to review the College's policy of randomizing the undergraduate houses in three years if the Committee on House Life requests that...
Undergraduate Council representatives on the committee asked last Tuesday that Lewis make a "firm commitment" to review the policy of randomized housing assignments in three years, when the houses will have been filled completely by randomized populations...
...wrote open letters and annual reports to the Harvard community on topics such as free speech and the role of the university in the larger world. Certainly, there was Rudenstine's "annual" report, issued earlier this year, which commented on diversity, but that seemed more of a historical review than a comment upon the world in which we live. This letter, while written in the same spirit as the report, is important because it responded to something in the world beyond Harvard. Rudenstine seems finally to have realized his bully pulpit, at least in small measure...
...first-year" proposal is only the beginning. The council recently proposed a small change to replace all official uses of the term "freshman" with "first-year." Per the Nelson-Grimmelmann Act (hence-forth "The Shackle"), the proposal was submitted to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 for review. The Dean rightly rejected the proposal...
...institutionalization of an administration review of council legislation--as opposed to a simple political dialogue between two separate parties--is a symbolically and procedurally crippling move. How can the council claim to represent students, sometimes on issues which may be directly or tangentially opposed to College policy, when it regularly goes to the Dean's Office for petty validation? As if the support of the Dean will translate into greater student support...