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Master Donald Pfister's recent letter to students, the ostensible occasion for the article, was not written to villify our Secret Santa activities or any of our students, but to offer context for a decision regarding the scheduling of our holiday dinner and dance, to clarify concerns about excesses, and to appraise students of past complaints, as the letter states clearly. The letter nowhere calls for new rules for this year's events. No rules or guidelines for these activities have ever been issued by the masters--these guidelines originate in a student/tutor committee, following house discussion, and students, tutors...
Lasting change will come only with an increase in student pressure on the faculty and administration. The ad hoc committee must mobilize the student body; only then will the faculty take note...
During the last two decades at Harvard, there is a direct correlation between the degree of student activism on the issue and the actual hiring of minorities and women. In order to institutionalize student pressure, the council should make the ad hoc committee a standing committee. This is not an ad hoc issue...
...effective, student pressure should take new, more exciting forms. A one-day boycott of classes taught by white men would raise awareness. So would encouraging students to sit in on classes taught by minorities and women for a day. These actions would ensure that the issues of race and gender are firmly set in the minds of the individuals who do the actual hiring...
...individual professors, since only the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a policy-making body can institute the structural changes necessary to guarantee a more diverse faculty. The Verba Report's original recommendations, especially the call for independent affirmative action faculty representatives in each department, should be revived by students. With specific demands, student protest can force specific remedies...