Matt Stolbach
Nov. 14, 1999
The writer is a sophomore at MIT and a member of the Chi Phi fraternity.
Council Not Incompetent
To the editors:
It is a shame that in arguing for a reduction in the size of the Undergraduate Council (a goal I fully support) prior to approving a term-bill increase, the editorial staff feels the need to put forth baseless assertions about the council's competence (Editorial, Nov. 18). In particular, I'm interested in what the editorial staff finds to be the council's "mediocre campus-wide events." Are these the Harvard-Yale weekend festivities? The Game tailgate has served food to 1,000 people each of the last three years, and the shuttles to the Harvard-Yale game at Yale transport over 800 people back and forth from The Game. Is the staff calling the first-year formal a mediocre event? For the past four years, this event has averaged an attendance of 1,000 people--more than 60 percent of the first-year class each year.
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