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...social well-being, nearly everyone expected broad community support for the Lather. The Undergraduate Council’s (UC) daft refusal to pay (even partly) for one of the two requisite foam machines, therefore, struck a chord of disappointment among already socially disenchanted students. With this final straw on Mather??s back, the Mather House Committee has decided to declare its independence from the UC—effective 11:59 April 28 (i.e. the midpoint of this weekend’s Mather Lather...
Starting next year, the UC’s funds will be deprived of each Mather House resident’s $75 student activities fee (or at least that’s our hope). With Mather??s roughly 430 residents, that would amount to $33,000—or approximately 4 times the amount of funding that the UC currently provides Mather HoCo. The sheer amount of fun that those funds would provide is simply unfathomable...
Ultimately, the plight of Mather House is the interest of all fun-loving students at Harvard. Two houses (namely, the host of the failed “Glowell” rave and the home of a tower which seems prepubescent next to Mather??s 18-story Goliath) have already threatened a counter-revolution, but this historic moment is a greater opportunity for teamwork than for animosity. Houses should join together with Mather in celebration of the great and often suppressed rights of Harvardians: hedonistic pleasure, political self-determination, and foam parties...
...fair, the Lather is world-famous; two years ago, it made headlines when dozens of attendees showed up at the hospital covered in painful rashes in the days that followed. Mather??s case for UC funding rested on the claim that since the party is so well attended, it deserved funding beyond the $4,700 that the UC allocates to each House per semester...
...It’s ironic that Mather??s request was turned down at this time of year, as the UC’s Finance Committee is midway through its annual death-spiral into insolvency. After a year of giving out buckets of cash to student groups—which frequently pack the UC’s meetings with desolate-looking, begging-and-pleading volunteer tutors when their grant applications are up for discussion—the cupboard is finally bare. Mather??s HoCo has no change to spare, either. After a year of happy hours...