Word: furore
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...unexpected development, the Council voted 11-3-1 a special resolution in response to the recent furor over Harvard's "sex scandal...
Perhaps it is going too far to suggest that Dean Monro has been Machiavellian enough to foment the present furor deliberately in order to win Faculty members to his side. Yet the Dean's apparent satisfaction at having the controversy reach Sunday supplements across the country is most disquieting. Harvard has always tried to prevent the emotions of the outside world from shaping University policy. It does not, as a rule, care to have its decisions made by national debate. Now, the Dean, having conducted a discussion in a way that assured tremendous publicity, welcomes further discussion with the hope...
Those, including the CRIMSON, who want to clarify the rationale of parietal rules, hope that Dean Monro did not intend to create a press furor by the way he phrased parts of his letter...
...second, though less likely, possibility is that Faculty opinion will be irrationally swayed by the press furor. One can only hope that in any Faculty vote, what is irrelevant will be recognized as such. As Professor Galbraith has it, "rules need only reflect the special requirements of the academic community--the quiet, good order and opportunity for undisturbed sleep that facilitate reflection and study. No effort need be made or should be made to protect indivividuals from the consequences of their own errors, indiscretions or passion." Perhaps when the College Deans recognize, in their practice if not their preachments, that...
...Amid the furor, Adlai Stevenson seemed the least perturbed of all, calmly turned the other cheek and said of his assailants: "I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school...