HPC Guides Men Along With a Book

The Harvard Policy Committee has announced that it will be publishing a Student Guide to Education at Harvard in time for registration this fall.

The HPC is an organization composed primarily of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, which advises a faculty committee on matters relating to educational policy.

Kenneth Kaufman, president of the HPC, said the booklet would "tell about opportunities around Harvard that people don't know much about." It will be a pamphlet, about 48 pages long, and will be priced at somewhere between 50 cents and $1, to cover the cost of printing.

Kaufman said he expects upperclass-men to be buying the Guide as much as freshmen. Between 3000 and 5000 copies will be printed.

The HPC book is being prepared this summer by Kaufman, Richard McCarthy, and Lynne Gerson, all seniors, who happen to be the only HPC members in Cambridge for the summer.

The Guide will include chapters on freshman advising, the Bureau of Study Counsel, Pass-Fail, Independent Study, tutorials, study abroad, grants for term-time and summer employment, Cambridge during the summer, and a guide to Harvard guides.

Kaufman said the authors are trying to avoid duplicating the efforts of other works which deal with the Harvard scene, such as the Confidential Guide to Courses and the Phillips Brooks House Handbook.

He emphasized that the book "will not be passing judgment on Harvard's educational institutions, so much as detailing and explaining them."

This is the first time the HPC has ventured into the publishing business. During the past year, it was largely responsible for applying the necessary pressure to get Pass-Fail and Independent Study changes through the voting Faculty.