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...Administrative decisions. Students will justifiably condemn the Commission until the Commission can at least recommend reversing decisions, until as many students as Faculty serve on the Commission, and until it becomes the first step toward creating a sense of mutual responsibility among students and Faculty--impossible until the CRR is also reconceived...
...quiet; it was hard to imagine what group, or which issue, could enlist sufficient support to mount a large protest. The controversy over the Counter Teach-In in 1971 had only just reached the boiling point; Richard Herrnstein's theory of I.Q. hardly seemed worth risking expulsion by the CRR, except to a few members of Progressive Labor...
...issues. Still, the Graduate Student Union, which came very close to striking over teaching fellows' salaries last Spring, has dwindled in number and strength. Sam Popkin went to jail over disclosure of sources in the Pentagon Papers case this Fall, and the news was received with distressed yawns. The CRR is old hat, and boring. More recently, the New American Movement has been pushing leaflets about "political" hirings and firings in three Harvard Departments; most leaflets have found their way unread to the trash basket. And the coaching ability of the varsity basketball coach seems unlikely to demand widespread attention...
...diffusion of the war as an issue and the low-key approach to current Harvard controversies foretells the Spring which Faculty and administrators have been anticipating for so long: no strike, no teach-in or counter teach-in, no building occupation, perhaps even no need for the tiresome CRR...
...ourselves on our "ideological heterogeneity." Given the current quietist strain in undergraduate life, that time is coming very rapidly indeed. For the last five years the University has successfully dodged a number of issues of conscience--not necessarily irresolvable national problems, but local issues like student discipline and the CRR. If Harvard continues its course for several more years it will have drifted past some of the era's more pressing moral problems without ever really facing up to them, without ever giving them a full hearing. Such a performance may not be an accomplishment to be proud...