Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrative fiat, Dean John Fox has brought about an unwanted and unnecessary change in the college dining policies. Without consulting CHUL, Dean Fox has presented most Harvard upperclassmen with an undesirable situation--in order to get much more than o.j. and coffee for breakfast, upperclassmen will have to take a hike in the mornings. Rather than being able to tumble out of bed at 9:25, stumble into breakfast at 9:29, and truck up to class at 9:55 with a group of friends in the House, upperclassmen will be obliged to negotiate the locked entrances of unfamiliar Houses...
...rearrangement of breakfast service will affect far fewer than half the students in the houses, since only around 45 per cent of all upperclassmen take breakfast, and fewer still avail themselves of the full menu [entree, hot cereal] currently offered," Fox said in his memorandum...
Then the mystery remains: why the Fox plan? One possible answer lies in the realities of interest group politics around the University. Side-taking on the plan roughly split along geographical lines. Student opposition to the plan was based at the Quad. Although River House upperclassmen had no opportunity to present their opinions on the plan, they were far less vocal than Quad residents and the majority of River House CHUL representatives apparently voted to abolish four-class Houses when CHUL voted by secret ballot on the issue. The only House masters to publicly oppose the Fox plan were...
...entries has long been an unpleasant responsibility for masters of over-crowded River Houses. The Vorenbergs, masters of Dunster House, have had but one volunteer roommate group to fill their 20-person Canaday entry in two years. And understandably so: Canaday has become an artificial mini-Quad; many Canaday upperclassmen must walk as far for dinner at their assigned Houses as Quad people must walk to some classes. Only six River House masters face the no-win task of assigning students to Canaday; but the prospect of having to do so must have lingered in the minds of the other...
...ultimately emerged, the goals of the revised Fox plan are at best overly optimistic and at worst unresponsive to the Quad's needs. Despite what the plan does for Canaday upperclassmen, Fox has said many times that the primary goal of the plan was to improve the Quad's popularity by equalizing its living quality with that of the River Houses. Unfortunately, the plan equalizes the two in the area of one of the Quad's lone advantages-four-class housing-and does little to bring Quad physical standards in line with the rest of Harvard...