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...Whitlock fears that the large number of returnees may signal a reversal of the trend toward leave-taking, a trend which began during the upheavals of the late sixties. "There can always be a fluke, students can always stop taking leave," he said. The number of students on leave jumped from 372 to 437 last year while the volume of returning students increased 52 to 418. Both of these statistics cover an entire year...
...Dean Whitlock observes critically that Harvard's lack of enlightened action in dealing with housing problems is the result of "a tradition of not setting policy the way General Motors does, therefore it [Harvard] tends not to set priorities. If you're going to set priorities, you've got to make policies." Whitlock continues to point out that "because we make ad hoc decisions, no one can tell what the total effect [of the 2.5 to 1 ratio plan] is going to be on the size of the College...
...beginning of the year, the so-called "start-up" figure will be about 10 per cent higher than the standard figures for each House. However, while half of this figure is permanent, the other 5 per cent will disappear, Dean Whitlock says, as students move off campus and others take leaves or live in the Yard as upperclass advisers. However, if leave taking does decrease and Harvard cannot guarantee its students a bed, the College will compel undergraduates returning from leave to live off campus and grant rooms to returnees only on a first-come, first-serve basis...
When will this situation arise? Dean Whitlock admits, "We will have to face it some day, and we may have to face it next year...
...College dean's office will be examining alternative assignment systems this month, and according to Dean Whitlock, three possibilities will be considered. First, should the number of restraints on the computer--such as the field of concentration, the secondary schooling of the applicant or even his or her sex--be reduced? Should Harvard run a straight lottery at the end of the year, a proposal which Whitlock correctly observes, "doesn't fit into the Harvard way of doing things...