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Students Ask Changes In Fainsod Proposals

Unless there are at least three Harvard students on the successor to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, there will be more Houses than student representatives to be elected, and some Houses presumably would elect only their one representative to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, which will have one student representative from each House.

Hausler said last night that he and Wilcox "can't really say what our system of rotation will be." and that the composition of the future disciplinary committee is still "the subject of debate within the Committee of Fifteen."

The choice of a "rotating" system of election is dictated. Hausler said, by the desire to retain the House as the basis of elections and to keep the new committees small.

Proportion Problem

"The House is the only feasible election unit for College-wide elections." Hauster said last night, "but there's a hidden problem of proportions here. There are only certain numbers of Harvard students you can appoint and still have the proper number of Cliffies and freshmen."

Unless each committee is to have a representative from each of the ten Houses and the freshman class, Hansler said, a "lottery or system of rotation is necessary" to select representatives from the Houses.

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The student members of the Committee of Fifteen were selected last fall by drawing names from thirteen students elected by the Houses, by freshmen, and at Radcliffe, Hausler called this "picking marbles out of a bag, and said that people he had spoken to about the system "didn't think it was too cool."

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