Word: counsel
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There are, however, a number of committees such as the Library, Athletics, Dramatics, Graduate and Career Plans, Student Activities, and Study Counsel where it seems to us that student membership may be both appropriate and highly useful. We understand that the Faculty Committee on Athletics Sports is favorably disposed toward a proposal to add three members of the Harvard Undergraduate Athletic Council to its membership, and that the Committee on Dramatics has taken steps to invite the President of the Harvard Dramatic Society to join it. We recommend that other committees in the category listed above initiate similar action...
...Fainsod report also recommended inclusion of students on such committees as the Library, Athletics, Dramatics, Graduate and Career Plans. Student Activities, and Study Counsel. But, it added. "we do not believe it to be wise or appropriate to include students as members of research or degree committees which deal with purely Faculty matters or which are engaged in making professional judgments about the qualifications of students for degrees...
...draft law denies to the registrant fundamental safeguards of due process," such as the right to counsel before local draft boards...
Most seriously injured was Chicago asst. corporation counsel Richard J. Elrod, who had spent the four days on the street gathering information for prosecution of the arrested students. Elrod was paralyzed from the neck down Sunday after he was smashed against a wall and beaten with a pipe by one of the demonstrators, police said...
...your memory, the defendants: Dr. Benjamin Spock (whose baby book is the second-largest bestseller in the history of mankind if you are interested in superlatives like that); William Sloane Coffin. Jim Marcus Raskin; Michael Ferber; and Mitchell Goodman-were charged by the U. S. government with conspiracy to counsel, aid and abet resistance to the draft. They were tried in the Boston Federal District Court and four of the five (all except Raskin) were found guilty and sentenced to two years in the Federal Penitentiary. Spock and Ferber were later cleared on appeal. The cases of Goodman and Coffin...