Squirrels and Fees

To many Harvard students the University Health Services is a mysterious organization from some Kafka-like nightmare: an impersonal bureaucracy that demands an annual tribute of sixty-eight dollars and seems to give nothing in return except an occasional physical examination. To others it is the well-meaning but bumbling agency that lives in the funny building on Mt. Auburn Street. In any case, it doesn't rate very highly.

Yet in response to the recent threat of a rabies epidemic among Yard squirrels, the Health Services has more than proved its concern for the welfare of Harvard and its personnel. Results of the immunological tests being conducted are not yet available, but no expense or effort is being spared in the battle for our protection. Let us remember this when our next term bill lists sixty-eight dollars for health service fee.