UNIVERSITY PRIORITIES

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

It is interesting that the United States Government is giving this University $200,000 to refurbish Harvard Hall, when efforts toward the solution of many more desperate problems in the area lack necessary funding.

It is interesting, too, that Massachusetts' wealthiest Corporation, easily able to afford payment on its own renovations, has accepted this money rather than requesting it be put to a more vital use.

If the Department of Health, Education and Welfare will allot Title II moneys only for educational facilities, perhaps Harvard should, upon receiving a grant, make available from its endowment an equal amount: for use in the establishment of better school facilities for Boston ghetto dwellers; applied toward good low-cost housing in Cambridge; or perhaps committed to community rent-control projects.

The plush carpets soon to be installed in Harvard Hall (like the chandeliers in Lehman and mahogany-paneled elevators at Hilles) might well be sacrificed for a bit of hope in the South End. Jared Rossman '71