BRAWL AT THE D.U. CLUB
...a brawl erupted at the D.U. final club between a football recruit and club members....The subsequent hush-up suggests that College officials prefer minimizing publicity to exacting appropriate punishments from blameworthy students....This sort of gang assault should be prosecuted as a serious crime....We recommend two courses of action for the University: 1) a careful examination of the recruiting program, since it is clear that football team members can no longer take care of their own and 2) an end to the persistent coddling of students who commit serious crimes.
FACULTY vs. ADMINISTRATION
...the contentious issue of faculty relations with the central administration is still simmering, as shown by a faculty discussion on this topic....Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes brought up two projects, the Inn at Harvard and the Medical Area Total Energy Plant, as examples of University-sponsored projects for which the faculty was not sufficiently consulted....In the future, the central administration would be well-advised to ask Dean Knowles and a few involved faculty members about such enterprises before they become reality....the central administration does not release enough records to the faculty, or, for that matter, to the community at large...
GINA GRANT
Admission to Harvard is a right, not a privilege. And it is a privilege Gina Grant does not deserve....The heinousness of Grant's crime, combined with the fact that it occurred so recently, are the primary reasons she does not deserve the privilege of attending this University....The evidence suggests that Grant Herself has not yet fully come to terms with her deed....Even if Grant was not legally obligated to state the facts of her case, the honesty and forthrightness that the Admissions Committee rightly expects from applicants would have required her to tell the whole truth, regardless of how it would have affected her admission.
THE U.C.'S ELECTIONS
Popular election of executives would add accountability and more representation of the student body to the Undergraduate Council and would give council leaders greater power in dealing with the administration....We support the amendment to the resolution that calls for a cap of $200 to be placed on campaign spending in a popular election....We have much to gain, and nothing to lose, from an improvement in the workings of democracy.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
We feel that our. reasons for supporting affirmative action are just as relevant today as they were more than 30 years ago, at the height of the civil rights movement....We believe that two entities have continued to keep minorities out of top jobs and positions: prejudice and a lack of educational equality....To truly change the climate of the American workplace--so that minority job applicants are no longer greeted by seas of white interviewers--affirmative action must have more time....In order to prepare the youth of America for a fair, stable and racially equitable society, education must conquer the discrimination that has hitherto been passed from generation to generation.
RANDOMIZATION OF HOUSES
Acting in blatant defiance of student opinion, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57...formally announced his decision to randomize the housing lottery system....The consensus of the College community holds that such social engineering is neither desirable nor effective....Within the present structure, each person chooses to live amongst people with whom he or she feels most comfortable....If installed, Mr. Jewett's neighborhood will prove to be a fractured farce, a false construction imposed on a University that otherwise grants its students a great deal of freedom.