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...year began with a violent attack by the Weathermen on the CFIA. On September 25 a group of about 25 persons, none of them Harvard students, invaded the Center, roughed up staff members and employees, and fled after fifteen minutes. Because the attack came so early in the year many people were uncertain about just who the Weathermen were and how strong they were. University officials braced for a violent year. The Weathermen, of course, are a tiny splinter group of SDS and have not reappeared at Harvard since the CFIA action. But the issue of CFIA remains...
...February the Concert Band decided to allow female membership; eight women participated in that organization last spring. Ten Radcliffe freshman signed up to audition for the marching band Monday and Radcliffe upperclassmen are expected to audition next week. "I hope at least ten or fifteen girls will march this year," Dill said...
...they said, "You're the Sirs who feed us, and thank you for feeding us. Sirs," and so on. But they also told us quite simply what it's like to be living under continual bombardment, what it is like to be afraid to leave your cave for even fifteen minutes because you might be destroyed. Basically they don't know why they are where they are; they only know that their entire way of life has been totally destroyed...
This undertaking, the Fellows' Program, consisted of bringing fifteen men together for one year at Harvard; a weekly seminar program, combined with unlimited access to the scholarly and intellectual resources of the University, would facilitate, it was hoped, "a franker, more productive discussion of foreign policy problems than would be possible if the same individuals were negotiating across tables for their governments," according to Edward S. Mason, former deputy assistant Secretary of State and another of the principal founders of the Center...
Rosenblatt is also director of Expository Writing and a member of the Faculty Council. During the 1969 Strike he served on the Committee of Fifteen, the disciplinary body which preceded the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...