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Spurred by Faculty legislation, Pusey appointed a Faculty committee "to re-examine and report on the structures, procedures and the decision-making processes of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including ways in which students might participate in reaching decisions. This committee, later known as the Fainsod committee for its chairman, Pforzheimer Professor of Government Merle Fainsod, was later to propose a broad restructuring of Faculty and student self-government--the most tangible and permanent outgrowth of the spring...
...which consumed us, and this blew the committee sky-high," Thomson says. "Even the idea of non-voting student advisory members caused several members to say that if students were attached to the committee in any form they would resign. After one of these sessions I went to Merle Fainsod and said if students are not attached to this committee, I will resign," he adds...
While the Fainsod Committee, out of the public eye, debated the issues of Faculty governing structure and student representation, students seized the initiative to make their voices heard. The events of April shattered the relatively calm, depoliticized security in which the committee worked. "The committee was set up too late for its purpose--if its purpose was to prevent an uprising. But the report was more liberal and humane because of what had happened. Some people had to have their eyes opened," Levin notes...
...hand, the members of the Student Assembly could request formal recognition from CHUL. On the other, Epps said, the members of the Student Assembly could ask the University to appoint a special review committee to consider different options for student government reform. The committee would be similar to the Fainsod Committee that established the student-faculty advisory committees--mainly CHUL, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR)--in the wake of the campus unrest...
...KING' COLLINS and his friends became public figures in Cambridge on March 4, 1969--a week after Radcliffe proposed merger with Harvard, a month before the Strike began, the same day the Faculty voted not to let students on the Fainsod Committee studying university governance. Collins was a former graduate student in social sciences from Columbia University's Teachers College who had helped occupy Columbia's Fayerwether Hall in 1968, and he started his Harvard career by attending a meeting of Social Relations 153, where Alex Inkeles, then associate professor of Sociology, was lecturing on juvenile delinquency. Collins told...