Include Grad Students on CUE

To the editors:

Why does the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) exclude any representatives of the group that spends the most time in the closest contact with undergraduates as teachers and advisers (News, Feb. 26)? The committee includes deans, Faculty and undergraduates, but no graduate students. Any change in undergraduate education at Harvard will not only affect, but it will most likely be effected by, graduate students, in their roles as teaching fellows, concentration tutors and advisers, and House tutors. It is foolish to exclude their input. It may be difficult to choose graduate students for CUE. Aside from House Tutors, few graduate students are assured a position for longer than a semester at a time, and rarely for more than one year. But there is a substantial pool of highly experienced teachers with a unique perspective on the College and on college education, and it is foolhardy to ignore them. JONATHAN F. DRESNER, GSAS   Feb. 27, 1998