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By Victoria G.T. Bassetto

Harvard will include minority sponsored events in the Freshman Week calendar as part of a proposal that seems to end a two-year series of skirmishes between minority student leaders and College administrators.

The student-faculty Committee College Life yesterday accepted Dean of Freshman Henry C. Moses's proposal to incorporate minority events, reversing of a section in the calender separate from academic events, reversing the college's 3-year-old policy excluding the listing. The committee also approved several amendments proposed by Third World Student Alliance representatives at the meeting.

The collaboration between both sides, in the wake of previously bitter disputes, was cautiously welcomed by both minority leaders and administrators.

The sense of the meeting was that the proposals were acceptable said Archie C. Epps, dean of students and secretary of the Committee, "We think we have a solution," he added.

This is the beginning of an entirely different relationship said alliance member Anthony A Ball '86 It's going to be something that's tested in the next year," he added.

The student amendments to Moses's proposal included establishing a liarson between the Freshman Dean's Office and the alliance in addition to a guarantee of permanent inclusion in the calendar, a preface to the calendar explaining the importance of the events, and attaching the label "non-academic" to the section listing the events.

Ball explained that the preface was proposed to stress the minority events' importance among the nonacademic events.

"There are fundamental differences, both quantitatively and qualitatively between [a

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