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Wesley spoke glowingly of Du Bois, one of the first blacks to attend Harvard, calling him a "major prophet," a "Harvard scholar in every sense," and the "originator of black power...
UNDERGRADUATES--most of whom have never heard of the Commission of Inquiry--will be able this week to attend two hearings to discuss the Commission's activities and structure...
...fourth time in the past five years. Harvard students are being asked to usher in the balmy days of spring by observing some sort of University strike. The Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union is requesting members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community to neither teach nor attend class beginning today until their strike is settled. Union picket lines will circle major classroom buildings, exhorting students and an occasional Faculty member to remain outside. The issues are complex and somewhat obscure for most undergraduates. The following summary of the dispute is intended to clarify the major points of contention...
...success of the strike depends on several variables. Although the Union has called on all members of the community to neither teach nor attend class, it is expected that different groups will heed the strike call in different degrees. The overwhelming majority of the Faculty will continue to teach. Although Faculty opinion about the Union and its demands ranges from sympathetic to haughtily remote. Faculty members share a common commitment to orderly process and an abhorrence of anything that interrupts their teaching and scholarship. A handful of liberal-to-left junior Faculty will call off class, but most will...
Teaching fellows are one of the keys to the strike's success. Other graduate students who support the strike will refuse to attend class, but teaching fellows will give the cause added leverage. By refusing in large numbers to teach sections, they can cripple large and middle-sized lecture courses and bring the Administration to the bargaining table. As of last week, the Union claimed that between 200 and 300 of its 600 members were teaching fellows. This figure will have to grow and most of the teaching fellows will have to stay out if the strike is to have...