Students to Review Admissions, Aid

A newly-formed student committee will examine and distribute information on the admissions, tuition and financial aid policies of Ivy League colleges and other selected schools, members of the committee said yesterday.

The group, which will focus on student participation in policy making, will serve as a clearinghouse, providing other student groups with the information necessary to make effective changes, Richard N. Chassin '81, coordinator of the Committee to Review Comparative Admissions, Tuition, and Financial Aid Policies, said yesterday.

New and Improved

Calling the committee "a new type of student activism," Chassin said, "We're dealing with a massive structure here and students will have to understand it to have any effect on it. Instead of making carte blanche demands, students will have the information to make reasonable requests."

"This place has been around for 340 years and it's unrealistic to think the administration will just jump on the bandwagon," Chassin said, adding, "At least this way they'll consider it. It's the only effective way to change. You can barricade University Hall but that doesn't change attitudes."

Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, who has been working on the committee with Chassin since last spring, said the group's primary role would be to "help demystify Harvard students," adding that the committee will help students "appreciate the realities that universities face."

The committee, an outgrowth of a conference of students from the Ivy League and Stanford which met at Harvard last spring, will study the Ivy League colleges, Williams, and possibly Stanford or the University of Chicago.