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...faculty had indirectly in this case taken a moral stand; but few members of the faculty would wish to repeat it. The next time there would have to be a Committee. The next time was the occupation of University Hall in April and there was the Committee of Fifteen...
...concerned with substantive issues. The ideal committee, as absurdist dramatists have pointed out, would concern itself solely with its own procedures and forms. When a committee is forced to consider a matter outside of itself, the best it can hope for is consistency and symmetry. The Committee of Fifteen had to settle for a baroque symmetry-they ruled that everyone in April was guilty, the Administration as well as the students. Issues like ROTC were consigned to unofficial memos and other committees. The administration, the Committee reported, had violated "the spirit, if not the letter" of the faculty's resolution...
...faculty had created the Committee of Fifteen, and that Committee had created the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, which now handles discipline in political cases. It is important to realize several essential facts about the CRR. The great debates I have heard about its fairness and its existence only rarely takes these into account...
...Inquiry, another "student-faculty" Committee, was set up this Fall to hear complaints against the Administration and to channel these complaints to the proper administrators. In the words of its chairman, Roger Rosenblatt, Acting Master of Dunster House and one of the original members of the Committee of Fifteen, it is meant "to take the jargon out of communication." Mr. Rosenblatt has not yet indicated with what the committee plans to replace the jargon. At any rate, this jargonless Committee is also powerless. It is intended only as a clearing house and channeling agency...
...senior scheduled to graduate last June. In 1969, the Committee of Fifteen had given him a suspended requirement to withdraw for one year because he had remained in University Hall. On last May 11th, he was identified by his senior tutor as a member of a picket line set up in front of University Hall. Some 400 students joined the picket line to protest the invasion of Cambodia and Harvard's refusal to act on President Pusey's declaration that striking campus workers would be paid...