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Several students attended the meeting, at the invitation of Theodore R. Sizer, dean of the Ed School. They included members of the School's Student Cabinet, the president of its Black Students Union, the chairman of its Colloquium Board, and the co-chairman of the Harvard Educational Review...
Speaking at the Harvard-Community Relations Colloquium, Mrs. Ackermann said that Harvard must stop its reduction of the current stock of low-cost housing. She added that there was presently more danger from individual students than from University expansion...
Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Affairs, said at the Colloquium that the majority of Harvard's faculties were not interested in any University plans for low-income housing up until the events of the past few days...
Also on the Colloquium panel, James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, cited the example of the University of Pennsylvania moving into housing with federal assistance and other subsides that Harvard has been reluctant to apply for. He said this loss of large federal grants seemed due to the Corporation's "aggrevation with red tape" and asked for a "more vigorous search for federal funds...
Charles Fried, professor of Law, said the decision to bring in police was "made arrogantly and high-handedly." Other faculty and students--including representatives of SDS--also spoke at the colloquium...