The current rent control system is rotten to the core..

Basic economic theory points out that the surest way to generate a short-age in the supply of a certain good is to institute a price ceiling. This is exactly what we are seeing now in Cambridge...

The City of Cambridge has made a mockery of property rights and is discriminating against those who possess land in favor of those who do not, pursuing no clear end save to wantonly transfer value from landlords to tenants without regard to financial status.   March 10, 1994

...Just as students may choose their activities and concentrations based upon their particular preferences, so too should they be able to choose the house in which they wish to live, sleep and socialize...

A better plan would be to allow each blocking group to list all 12 houses in order to preference and assign them accordingly. This utilitarian system would achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of Harvard undergraduates.

Any attempt to limit the freedom to choose a house has an insulting and paternalistic aspect....It denies that students may have the character and maturity to find a good mix of difference and similarity in their social interactions...   March 11, 1994

With his recent controversy, we must begin to wonder about the intentions of the Undergraduate Council. Isn't it time to worry when the president of our student government only selectively follows the will of students and the mandates of the council's own constitution...

With these questions, we applaud the likely intervention of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III....Epps should immediately instruct the council to follows its own rules...

It is a sad day when students can be saved from their own representatives only by the grace of sympathetic administrators. Unfortunately, that day has come.   April 15, 1994

When the news came last week that just, over two years after being appointed, Provost Jerry R. Green was resigning to return to the Harvard economics department, we--along with the rest of the University--were shocked. And dismayed. And confused.

Shocked, because there were no indications, not even the slightest hints, to regular Mass. Hall watchers, that Green wasn't enjoying his job, or that others were dissatisfield with the job he was doing...

Dismayed, because we like Jerry Green....Indeed, among administrators, Green is a rare breed--he says what he thinks....

Finally, we were more than a little confused by the announcement of Green's resignation. Most curious fall is that, to this day, neither Green, nor Rudenstine, nor anyone else has said why the Provost decided to return to active scholarship...

We...are sorry to see the Provost go. We'd just like to know why.   April 18, 1994

Once more, the top officials of the Harvard Management Company (HMC) have pocketed barrels of money for investing Harvard's $6 billion endowment...