Word: fainsod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other action, HUC approved full voting membership for two faculty members, on the "counter-Fainsod" committee, studying student participation in University decision-making...
...Committee on Faculty Organization (Fainsod Committee) will hold an open meeting to hear proposals on the role of students in Faculty decision-making on Tuesday evening, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. March 25 in Geological Lecture Room. Representatives of student organizations or individual students who wish to present proposals should get in touch with Professor Merle Fainsod, Chairman of the Committee, before next Tuesday. Professor Fainsod can be reached at the Director's Office. Widener Library on Extension 2401. The Committee will welcome written statements as well as oral presentations...
...purpose, along with the case for representation, is to strengthen the findings of the Fainsod Committee," Raines said. "We feel it is not too early to discuss particular issues...
CLEARLY THE Fainsod Committee has been designed not to instigate student power but to co-opt it before the issue really threatened the Corporation's vital interests. The Committee's principal protagonists, Dean Ford, President Pusey, and Merle Fainsod are knowing in the ways of corporate bureaucracies. The first solicits money for them, the second administrates them, and the third studies them. Their hopes for the Committee, conscious or not, probably go something like this: the study will take three months, the reaction will take some time, and in the meantime, several "student leaders" will have developed a large stake...
Student power that doesn't challenge the University's support for American Corporate power is worse than useless. It gives the impression of reform and tends to silence opposition. That is what the Fainsod Committee is all about...