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...nominees, it will join Adams House and the Freshman Council--which also voted to nominate representatives to the CRR this fall--in reversing its decision. Following in the footsteps of several past Freshman Councils, members of the Class of '84 changed their minds about the CRR after talking with upperclassmen...
Somehow, freshmen, and even upperclassmen, are going to have to become enamored enough of the swimmirg program to return in the fall for the time-consuming regimen of double workouts and weight-training sessions that eat away most of the year. Instead of alienating start performers the coaches must start nurturing the swimmers along to better performances. Then, perhaps as a side effect, the selection of captains will also become a more meaningful and competitive process; not the present system of scrounging around for two swimmers who have stuck it out for three years...
...GUERRILLA sit-in showed two things. First, it was clearly effective: it got Dean Epps out at 1 a.m., and it got a 24-hour study area for freshmen in the Greenhouse Cafe (upperclassmen can already use their dining halls). Students with other complaints should note GUERRILLA's success, and realize that direct action can sometimes gain administrators' ears and solutions to problems where the "established channels" are sluggish. Ideally administrators would be more open to students' needs, but until the administration changes, students will have to act as well as talk...
...Greenhouse Cafe will be open all day and all night, until the end of exam period, but officials said they hope that few students, and least of all upperclassmen, will venture across the wilds of Harvard Yard...
...first time students considered breaking the boycott. For several years, the freshman class has voted to send representatives to the CRR after receiving a letter from the dean of students requesting them to do so. So far, they have withdrawn their delegates each year as soon as upperclassmen explained to them the details of the CRR's origins and purpose...