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THAT WAS almost a year ago, when President Pusey established a seven-man committee, with Robert W. Austin as chairman, and asked it to "concern itself with examining and clarifying the relationship of universities (and in particular this University) with corporate enterprise in general in the United States." The request came during the Campaign GM controversy, in which a group of Washington lawyers, backed by Ralph Nader, hoped to push through two administrative reforms in the General Motors management. Polls of Harvard students and alumni, and a Faculty resolution, indicated widespread support for the drive. The Corporation decided...
Early this month, the Austin Committee issued its report. Beginning with a definition of the University as "a center of free inquiry," the Committee's report proceeds to say that the "University can best serve society by concentrating on that function [inquiry], and maintaining a neutral stance as a university on all political and social questions except those propositions (and it is a small list) where there is no longer room for argument among people who accept our basic socioeconomic political system..." According to the report, this small list includes protection of individual freedoms and opposition to racism...
...Austin Committee chose not to draw guidelines, fearing they would be "too broad and sweeping on the one hand or too narrow and detailed on the other to be operable." Instead, its report advocates creating the position of fact-finder, who would advise the Corporation on investment possibilities that are both socially responsible and potentially lucrative...
Quick, now, basketball fans, who is the best college forward in the country? Sidney Wicks of U.C.L.A.? Well, some pro scouts insist that unpublicized Travis Grant of Kentucky State can shoot circles around Wicks. How about the best guard? Wrong again-not Austin Carr of Notre Dame. Those in the know say that Tuskegee has a ball-hawking hustler named Kendall Mayfield who has moves that make Carr look like he is standing still...
...University from arbitrarily raising tuition. Except for the Corporation, we are the only members of the immediate community with any economic interest in Harvard's investment policies. Yet the University last year ignored large-scale student protest and voted its investments in General Motors-and it vows, in the Austin Report, to continue ignoring "factional" voices as it pursues its own financial interests. All interest groups have some concern in the quality of undergraduate education-but only the undergraduates have pressing concern in the quality of that education now. True, there have been some changes in the structure and process...