A plan to provide House masters and senior tutors with immediate access to undergraduate academic records through a series of House-based video terminals has sparked concern among administrators that students' privacy could be violated.
The terminals, which the College plans to install this summer, would link the Houses with the registrar's office, allowing masters and senior tutors to retrieve academic transcripts and other information about students in their Houses.
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The Faculty Council last week decided not to disavow a Harvard official's public suggestion that society discourage homosexuality and refused to investigate the official and the research center he directs.
The Council turned down a formal request from the Gay Students Association (GSA) that it criticize Edward I. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences. "Mr. Pattullo's right of free speech is paramount in this matter," the council said in a prepared statement.
Last Friday Pattullo sent a letter to GSA member Michael G. Colantuono '83 stating that he had "misread" a story by Colantuono as "an invitation to open discussion of a difficult and delicate issue."
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History and Literature and Social Studies may once have been refuges for students who fled monstrous departments like Government. History and English. But students who entered the "elite" departments this year had better have another reason for their choice. Ninety students chose to major in Social Studies this year and 91 selected History and Literature. The other most popular majors--Economics, Biology and Government--boasted 156, 113 and 90 students respectively.
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