Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENTS of last Spring, as well as those of the past week, have demonstrated that there exist within Harvard University issues which, if not considered and resolved in time, are capable of causing deep and violent division among members of the University. Last April, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences showed its willingness to come to grips with issues of this sort: its resolutions on ROTC and Afro Studies restored a measure of unity to a university then bordering on complete break down. Now, at its first meeting on Tuesday, it is time for the Faculty to begin the searching...
...Since April, most reform efforts have focused on restructuring the University. These efforts will probably not bear fruit for some time to come. Yet in the meantime, issue of both political and educational nature remain of concern to at least a sizable portion of the student body. The danger of concentrating exclusively on restructuring is that it can allow such substantive questions as the propriety of certain types of research and the correctness of current admissions policies at Harvard to go unconsidered for an indefinite period by many students and Faculty...
...trying to resolve these and similar issues, it will have to be the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as now constituted. Many of the outstanding questions are within the legislative purview of the Faculty. Its voice on others should carry no little weight with the governing boards after the April crisis...
TAKING A thoroughgoing review of the problems of the University body politic will not be an easy task. The legislative turmoil of last April undoubtedly taxed many Faculty members to the limit of their endurance. Rather than commencing a new cycle of crisis legislation, the Faculty should now begin a more orderly process of developing answers to outstanding issues-through committees, the only means by which a legislative body of 500 men with limited time can provide coherent answers to complex and divisive questions. To provide an efficient division of labor, several ad?hoc committees should cach deal with...
...Tuesday, the Faculty can begin to set in motion this process, if only by expressing its intent to take the substantive actions needed to do so. This in itself would be a significant step toward the comprehensive and careful self-examination which, as last April indicated, has been long overdue at this university...