(The author is a junior living in Jordan J. He was a student member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education last year and is now active in community organizing.)

HARVARD is not just an educational institution but also a corporation, a financial institution with an endowment of $1.3 billion, the largest employer in Cambridge, and an influential institution throughout Boston and America. As students, we are a part of this institution and therefore have a responsibility to work to change its operations so that they are in accord with some standard of social responsibility.

We need real community at Harvard and Radcliffe and that means sharing of responsibility and decision-making. An administration is supposed to make available resources for the needs of students and faculty. The H-R community should make the decisions on social and educational questions. The administration should not be the executive, arbitrary rule-setting body it has become. In the past three years, protest activities from petitions to building take-overs have assumed the authority of the Harvard administration to say yes or no to the proposals. The result has been no real change in Harvard's policy on housing, investments, and discipline because the protests came from a powerless position. Students must be able to place themselves in a bargaining position with Harvard with an organized group holding real power within the University.

To get into this union-type relationship, students must withhold something from the Harvard administration that will make them bargain collectively over social and educational issues. A strike on classes would not do this. However, a tuition strike or withholding of the $200 tuition increase might bring this about. Such a tactic must be justified in itself besides being the means to make Harvard socially responsible.

The tuition raise will give Harvard $1.2 million. The University maintains it is in serious financial trouble. Yet, the problem is that Harvard can neither operate as conservatively in finances nor as opulently in unnecessary frills as it did in the past. In 1970. Harvard investments earned $50.7 million but Harvard only spent $39.29 million of this. Therefore, more than $11 million of income was reinvested as in past years despite the endowment growing by way of capital gains and gifts ($7 million of $33.5 million in gifts received last year was reinvested). The Faculty of Arts and Sciences alone has accumulated an $8 million surplus of unspent money front what was allotted them in previous budgets. Students have no say over how their tuition money is spent in terms of the quality of their education. This must change.

What Would A Tuition Strike Mean?

If all 6000 undergraduates withheld the first $100 of the tuition increase in the September term bill, there could be $600.000 in an escrow bank account yielding $15.000 interest by April 1, 1972. The interest could be spent on scholarships, day care, a free university, etc. The purpose of the escrow account is similar to rent or war tax withholding where due money is held in a bank until the dispute is bargained over or arbitrated. The person withholding his or her money is protected against normal reprisals for non-payment for services rendered. A court case may arise to protect students' dus process and recognize Harvard's obligation to bargain collectively with the union or submit the dispute to binding arbitration.

HOUSING

Over 9000 Harvard students, professors, and administrators live off-campus in Cambridge. They can afford higher rents which forces poor and working-class families to leave old neighborhoods as rents skyrocket. Universities like Harvard and M?LT. tend to attract research and technical firms to Cambridge, further altering neighborhoods and bringing more middle income people to the city to live. To alleviate the housing shortage, the high rents, the break-up of neighborhoods, Harvard must do its part:

-On its own land, at the Business School and next to the IAB, build more dorms and apartments.

-Except for extraordinary reasons, all undergraduates must live on campus-students must do their part too.

Over time, rent some of the 451 off-campus units to low-income people and have them on the rent supplement program.

-Where land is available, Harvard should finance the construction of 1000 units of low-income, low-rent housing. A community organization representing the tenants should control management of the buildings.

COMMUNITY USE OF HARVARD FACILITIES

The non-Harvard community should have the use of the IAB, Homenway Gym, Watson Rink, one night a week and Saturdays for recreation programs and free play. Athletic fields and rooms for meetings should be similarly made available.

COMMITMENT TO SOCIALLY USEFUL INVESTMENTS

A commitment of 1/2 per cent of Harvard's endowment to socially useful investments would mean about $6.5 million for such purposes. This money would not be given away but invested in socially useful concerns that normally pay a lower rate of monetary in-

terest but higher rate of social interest. Harvard is not being asked to stop being Harvard, but to recognize that all institutions must do something more than their normal functions. Examples: