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Dean Glimp said yesterday that he is confident that all students who remain on probation as a result of the Dow disturbance were actually present at the demonstration. He added that he did not expect any more students to be taken off pro until the punishment expires in June...
...alumnae and at least one trustee (approximately the Radcliffe equivalent of a Harvard overseer) are beginning to express their dissatisfaction with the administration's policies. "Dissent from Mrs. Bunting's activities is very widespread," the trustee remarked. The administration's positions on both the housing controversy and the Dow demonstration have illuminated the basic problem. The administration does not want to listen to students, and, as a result, it seems to be deliberately misrepresenting student opinion to alumnae, trustees, and Council members, by giving them what they define as responsible student opinion...
...trustee meeting after the Dow demonstration, for instance, Kathleen Elliott, Dean of the College, and Mrs. Bunting read statements to the trustees, which one trustee termed "pat, monosyllabic, and completely neutral." When another trustee asked for student opinion, he was reportedly quoted remarks by the four student members of the Judicial Board which supported the administration. No mention was made of a petition signed by 700 Radcliffe girls requesting that the administration not single out eight "scapegoats...
...Dow demonstration also prompted a number of senior residents (Radcliffe's equivalent of House tutors) to send a letter to the administration asking for a general amnesty. They received no comment on the letter. Senior residents are no young turks. This marked the first time in a long while that an issue had provoked them into taking a stand vis-a-vis the administration. They have long been reluctant to let themselves be quoted in the Crimson, knowing that they would get a phone call from Fay House the next day. "It's a matter of bread and butter," Carl...
Glimp said yesterday that he had refused primarily because his schedule until Christmas is tight. "It's been a pretty busy time since October 25" [the date of the Dow demonstration], he added...