It is not even true that married tutors always enjoy larger suites than single resident tutors. The rent proposal, which was made without any consultation with the tutors, discriminated in favor of non-married resident tutors and the spouses and children of Masters, Senior Tutors, and resident Superintendents.

By charging each tutor's spouse $1500 per year as proposed, the University could have raised an additional $28,000 per year. As explained by Dennis S. Klos, a married resident tutor in Social Relations living in Adams House, the same amount could have been raised, if need be, by charging every staff resident in the Houses $13 per month.

In other words, at the risk of driving away from the Houses married residential tutors, whose activities were judged in a major committee report to be a vital contribution to Harvard House life, the Administration was prepared to charge a discriminatory fee which would not even have substantially added to the University's income.

Two more reports on the role of tutors in the Houses will be forthcoming soon, one by Burbank and one currently under preparation for the CUE by Assistant Professor Regina M. Kyle and David Oxtoby '72.

THE BURBANK REPORT, which will focus only on Harvard Houses, was conceived as a briefing for President Derek C. Bok and is based on interviews with Senior Tutors and some residential tutors in most of the Harvard Houses, plus interviews with several small groups of students. The report is now before the Masters, Burbank said, and will be released once the Masters have had time to consider it.

The CUE Report, based on questionnaires circulated to residential tutors, will be ready in about a month. Preliminary findings may be reported to CUE in two weeks. The questionnaire tries to determine: the number of tutees associated with each tutor; the number of sections for which each tutor may be responsible; and the feelings of tutors with regard to tutorials in the Houses, extended informal contact with other students in their areas, and the current duties of the residential tutors in the Houses. As of a week ago, however, only 30-40 per cent of the residential tutors had replied.

According to Kyle, it may turn out that the name "residential tutor" is misleading, since the original concept of the tutor involved as much an advisory as an academic role. She called morale among tutors and grad students "low", and would personally suggest greater cooperation among tutors, Senior Tutors, and Masters, consultation with tutors on decisions affecting them, and a better evaluation of the Houses' needs as a means of improving the tutors' outlook. Kyle regards the proposal to charge married tutors rent as "insane."

II

MANY OF THE SAME contradictions and confusion over purposes have arisen with proposals to broaden the role of Houses in offering courses and independent work. On December 8, 1971, the CHUL "endorsed in principle" a proposal calling for each House to have a Committee on Instruction of six associate faculty members in order to deal with:

* Special Studies concentrations

* independent work petitions

* 91 or 910 courses which may be offered in the Houses

* the coordination of House tutorials

* the coordination of an advising system for non-honors students

* the coordination of sections in the Houses, and