Adams Tutors Stage 'Last Supper,' Protest Cuts in Budget for Houses

Eleven Adams House resident tutors staged a "Last Supper" Friday night to mark the end of the House's free meal pool for the year and to protest University cutbacks in support of tutors and the Houses.

To the cheers of undergraduates in the dining hall, Romney Moseley, resident tutor in psychology and religion, announced: "We, too, have been betrayed."

Fred Fox '68, pre-med advisor to Adams House, explained that unlike other Houses which had cut back the number of tutors' meals per week, Adams House and its tutors agreed to risk drying out the meal pool "in order to clarify the issue" of decreasing University financial support for the Houses.

The Adams House free meal pool, which covers all non-undergraduates affiliated with the House, has survived since February entirely on voluntary contributions by the staff and associates. In a notice posted for the tutors, William Liller '49, Master of Adams House, expressed the hope that future contributions would offset the cost to tutors of meals eaten in the dining hall between now and the end of the year.

The tutors' protest coincides with a campaign by Adams House students and alumni to convince the Administration to restore meal pool allotments.

Campaign

Members of the Adams House Committee have proposed an undergraduate petition on behalf of the tutors, a letter-writing campaign to Adams House associates and fellows, and a request to seniors to withhold pledges to the College Fund until Harvard shows evidence of an increased budgetary emphasis on the House system in general.

Individual administrators have been invited to eat lunch in Adams House each day for the next two weeks to discuss the future of the Houses and University policy with House members.