Word: affections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer content to live in a cocoon. It is recognized that it is impossible to know and fulfill the responsibilities of freedom without first being allowed to make choices and exercise that freedom. Students are expected to make value judgments about the outside community and to affect it through responsible action. It is incongruous that they should not make a similar critical analysis of their educational environment. The concern with student power, therefore, represents the concentration of critical faculties upon the students' closest and most relevant environment...
...right to make decisions emanates from two sources: 1) competence to make the decisions and 2) being affected by the decisions. There is no question that most decisions within an educational institution profoundly affect students. In fact, though these decisions also affect faculty members, administrators, and even in some senses the institution per se, it is still true that they affect students much more than anyone else. Their impact, moreover, is doubly significant at a residential college such as Harvard...
Because not all decisions affect students to the same extent, and because various issues require different types of experience and training, it would be unwise to maintain the same student-faculty ratio on all committees. In fact, the ratio could vary between the policy decisions (which should always include student opinion) and the day-to-day operation of any one committee. The Admissions Committee, for example, should have student members when deciding policy issues, but would probably require an in-ordinate amount of time from any student attempting to participate in the entire admissions process. To illustrate the manner...
...Committee on the Houses makes recommendations to the Faculty regarding aspects of life in the Houses. It deals with matters which affect students' non-academic (social) education far more than their academic education. These issues are directly relevant to the student and to almost no one else. Students should compose more than 50 per cent of this committee...
...Committee on Educational Policy makes recommendations regarding matters of academic concern. These issues directly affect both students and faculty. They have profound effect in terms of defining the academic reputation of the college. In addition, whereas decisions affecting House life could be easily reversed under the above plan, mistakes in the academic category are often harder to rescind, since they may have involved the hiring of more instructors, for example. Students should compose about 33 per cent of this committee, although this could vary widely according to the issues being considered...