Following up on discussions from last spring, the Committee on House
Life (CHL) decided yesterday to create a task force in the next few
weeks to assess whether dining hall hours should be extended. The
committee also discussed modifications to the annual House tutor
survey.
The tutor survey proposal, originally advanced last spring,
proposes using questions that examine students’ relationships with
their House masters and senior tutors—similar to questions on the
Senior Surveys.
The CHL also postponed a discussion on cable TV in the dorms until next month’s meeting.
The dining hall task force, which was endorsed by the CHL last
spring, will be headed by Tara Gadgil ’07, chair of the UC’s Student
Affairs Committee (SAC), and newly-appointed Associate Dean for
Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson. The group will be composed of HUDS
staff, administrators, and students from different areas of campus and
will be charged with evaluating different potential options to extend
the hours of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) service for
undergraduates.
“That should be put together in the next few weeks,” said Gadgil.
According to a UC student survey presented at a CHL meeting
last year, 87 percent of undergraduates said that, if given the option,
they would eat dinner after 7:15 p.m.
Another task force of House masters, senior tutors, and
students will be assigned to think of questions for the survey in the
coming weeks.
“The feedback is only useful if the questions are relevant to
what senior tutors and masters want to know,” said former SAC Chair
Aaron D. Chadbourne ‘06.
Next month, the CHL will also discuss the feasibility of
providing all dorms with cable television, potentially by allowing
students to access cable television on their personal computers, Gadgil
said.
“This has been an issue that’s been lingering on campus for
many years,” Gadgil said, “but we’ve been looking into this since the
summer and hope to be able to implement it.”
—Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu.
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