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February 10: The Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee belatedly asked the Faculty to include some students on its new committee studying Faculty organization. When the Faculty step up the committee at its January 21 meeting, it specifically rejected proposals to seat students as voting members. Merle Fainsod, the committee's chairman, said that only a special Faculty vote would allow him to add students...
...increased faculty concern with the same order of problems. Discontents on the matter of University governance which had long lain dormant were suddenly reawakened. The concrete result of this new concern with University structure led most concretely to the formation of the Student Faculty Advisory Council and of the Fainsod Committee. The formation of these bodies, far from stilling discussion, actually stimulated further interest in all matters of University administration...
...main point, however, is to bring to the attention of the Harvard community how unradical the new Fainsod Committee's Committee actually is. Whether or not to allow students to sit on this committee was a controversial point and even those in favor of it may have had some doubts as to its results. Not only that, but students comprise only one-third of the committee, while Radcliffe's Judicial Board is half and half. I feel that this is an example of how Harvard students are being fooled into thinking that they have forced far-reaching concessions from...
...distressed by the fact that no Harvard students have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Fainsod Committee's Committee as it stands in contrast to Radcliffe's Judicial Board, especially since this Committee on which students sit was created only for this one violation and is not a permanent body. But I am overwhelmed by the fact that no Radcliffe girls have protested. Has everyone forgotten Radcliffe's existence? Just because our deans choose to remain silent, bowing before their suitor, choosing not to become personally involved in the brutal beating of their students, is no reason why we, as students...
...Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, announced last night the names of the four Harvard and Radcliffe student members on the student-faculty committee investigating the occupation of University Hall...