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...read with interest your recent editorial on the University Health Services: "Counting on Care" (February 20). The student survey will provide limited statistical information to be used as a complement to the larger ongoing effort by UHS to invite feedback and criticism. This vital process of eliciting continuous feedback is managed by the assistant to the director/patient advocate, a full-time position created about 15 years ago. The responsibilities of this person are primarily to hear, represent, and respond to patient concerns. The patient advocate also serves as a liaison to two advocacy groups, the Student Health Advisory Council...
...Administration's proposed budget is most extraordinary when compared with last year's, which called for a 45 percent cut in financial aid. Important programs such as Pell grants and College Work-Study--both vital for low-income students--Will no longer be victim to attack by the White House...
...federal Medicaid reimbursement to the states, which helps pay for medical care for the poor, could be better controlled by pegging increases to the Consumer Price Index. The National Institutes of Health, whose budget has increased more than 50% since 1981, could withstand a 5% cutback without endangering vital programs...
...surprised to hear from many faculty members that they feel that broad faculty concerns are not being addressed in forums charged with specific assignments and structured in a manner that could lead to significant recommendations or decisions. The perception extends to the Faculty Council, with which we met. Such vital faculty responsibilities as the creation of new courses, the formation and substance of the concentrations and the developments of instructional approaches and modes seem to be addressed extensively at the department level without full understanding of the impact on other departments and programs. Moreover, the process and criteria for assigning...
Free and open discussion of controversial issues is vital to the future of our university community. Yet continued reliance on the Committee on Race Relations as a political tribunal will inevitably discourage teachers from raising precisely those issues that most insistently demand to be the subject of sustained and vigorous classroom debate. The Committee has a valuable and important role to play in improving race relations at Harvard. It would be a shame if it became transformed into a vehicle for character assassination and thinly veiled assaults upon the First Amendment. Richard John '81 GSAS...