Word: fainsod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROFESSOR FAINSOD'S decision to enlist student "consultants" in his consideration of Faculty decision-making has sent another pulse of life into the reviving student-faculty dialogue at Harvard. Limited by his mandate from the Faculty, Fainsod has done his best to bring students into the debate on their role in university government...
...matter as directly dependent on students' image of themselves and the University, consultation is at best a stop-gap measure. The Faculty is scheduled to reconsider the matter of student representation on the Fainsod Committee at its March 4 meeting. It should broaden Fainsod's mandate to give students voting seats on the committee...
...case for some form of student participation in the committee's discussion in plain. The committee owes its existence to students discontent as it crystallized in the Paine Hall demonstration, and its explicit function is to investigate ways of meeting student demands for greater involvement in Faculty decision-making. Fainsod's group cannot hope to be effective unless it maintains constant and intimate contact with the constituency which is pushing for change...
Professor Fainsod has considerably simplified the problem of choosing student representatives in appointing student consultants. By the time the Faculty gets around to considering student representation again, the committee will be one-third through its study. To preserve continuity, the President, acting for the Faculty, could simply appoint the student consultants full members of the committee...
...Committee decided in favor of this limited student participation at its first meeting on February 12. By arranging for student consultants, the Fainsod committee has gone as far as possible, under its present mandate from the Faculty, toward including students in its activities...