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...entail an incredible complication of mechanics, especially in determining the number of students who should have such a role, how they should be chosen, and whether they should be involved in deciding appointments. Perhaps the Governance Committee should have recommended a full voting role, but instead it preferred a "gradualist approach" where-by an increased number of students would attend faculty meetings on a regular and more participatory basis...
There is also the danger that, without immediate student voting participation, the Law School Council and all its ramifications for long-range student participation at faculty meetings will ultimately fall into apathetic disrepair. But if students seriously desire an eventual voting role, they must recognize that a "gradualist approach" is essential and they must make it work-no faculty at Harvard is going to dole out its privileges to persons who have not first proved themselves to be potentially responsible voting members. In many ways, the Law School has become a testing ground for the rest of the University...
After dismissing a voting role for students at faculty meetings as inappropriate at this time, the Committee on Governance opts for a "gradualist approach" whereby five permanent members of the proposed Law School Council, student representatives of committees with business on the agenda and five "random" students are entitled to participate in faculty meetings...
From that work, Thomson said, he got interested in "how good and how bad we are in forming gradualist alternatives to underdeveloped countries." An expanded version of his thesis topic will be coming out in book form next year. Thomson is presently working on a study on "how we made policy toward East Asia in 1930's juxtaposed with how we make policy...
...their differences have become clear. Wheeler believes in the efficacy of bombing North Viet Nam far more strongly than McNamara, who doubts the wisdom of intensifying the air war. Moreover, though his misgivings have never been publicly expressed, Wheeler has not been wholly in sympathy with McNamara's gradualist increase in military pressure on North Viet Nam. Wheeler agrees with the theory of flexible or graduated response to aggression, but believes that the restraints the U.S. has imposed on its war effort have unnecessarily blunted its potential impact. "You either fight a guerrilla war or a limited...