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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black students were willing to let the October 7 meeting pass without incident, H. Paul Santmire, chaplain to the college, was not. Immediately following the meeting he gathered in his office a group of 35 white students to discuss the meeting. No black students were invited because Santmire believed that "the black students were evidently discouraged. It was my feeling that it was a time for white people to take a reading...
...many areas of concern to the students. They called for alterations of admissions policy to accommodate the acceptance of unconventionally-qualified students and to allow for greater recruitment of black students. In addition, COWI requested that the administration introduce pass-fail courses and more extensive leaves of absence. The group also suggested that faculty salaries at Wellesley be raised to improve the quality of faculty attracted to the college and to enable the school to compete for the scarce supply of black professors and administrators...
COWI's reforms did not ignore the issue of student power: the group asserted that students should be seated on the Board of Admissions and on Academic Council, Wellesley's faculty decision-making body. The girls concluded by demanding that the administration cease perpetuating a "tree day" image of Wellesley in the college publications...
Nevertheless, it seems strange that most Wellesley students were willing to support the COWI proposals. For when Nancy Schneibner speaks of admitting a diversified group of students to Wellesley, she is saying that most of the girls who are currently enrolled in the college should not be there...
...misleading way. The idea of "poverty of he College" protects one from having to deal with other issues concerning the admissions policy. It prevents re-evaluation of the education-for-elite philosophy. This is not simply that it would be best if Harvard's percentage of each income group exactly matched the nation's. The hidden essenial issue is he purpose and meaning of a private university, and who it should therefore recruit. You know Harvard's present answer to this question. Do you like the answer? Are there better ones? Are they basically correct and yet is there...