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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHAT MAY have been one of its last closed meetings, the Harvard Faculty yesterday handled two sensitive issues with extraordinary independence and intelligence. By rejecting the Administrative Board's recommendation that five of the Paine Hall demonstrators be forced to leave school, the Faculty avoided an irrational and inflammatory gesture. And by voting to reevaluate it own procedures at a meeting next week before the ROTC issue is decided, the Faculty recognized that its tradition of semi-secret meetings may need immediate reform...
Suspending the five Paine demonstrators who were on probation last year for sitting in at Mallinckrodt would have been a disastrous error. It is hard to understand how even eight of the fifteen voting members of the Ad Board could have backed this proposal; the only rationale given for drastically increasing a student's punishment because of his past record in political demonstrations was a filmsy analogy to criminal law. And a piece of harsh disciplinary action backed by neither reason or precedent is just the sort of spark that could set off a paralyzing protest at Harvard...
Professor Alan Heimert chocked off the potential unpleasantness with a motion, reminiscent in its face-saving ingenuity of the diplomatic maneuver used to free the Pueblo crew. But whether the Faculty actually overturned the Ad Board or merely amended its recommendation with an innovation the board could not have proposed itself is beside the point, College administrators (like Grayson Kirk) forced to handle student discipline by themselves are in a hopeless bind because they do not have the authority to make their decisions stick. Here the Faculty has the final power to fix punishments and yesterday its members rightly decided...
...college was understandable; but Smith made it clear as he left that he was not just trying to evade an unpleasant situation. He had been hamstrung in his negotiations, Smith said, by a close-minded state government. And unless Governor Reagan and his men on the state college governing board were willing to back him in his compromises with the students, Smith saw no point in even trying to restore peace...
Whatever they are, the Ad Board's recommendations will be presented to the Faculty today. There will be no opportunity for Faculty members to discuss these recommendations before today's meeting, and consequently there is little chance that the Faculty will alter them. Since the Ad Board has not announced its recommendations on punishment soon enough so that students and Faculty could discuss them, a solution that juggles the existing disciplinary rules would be particularly odious...