Word: gsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GSA committee last month asked J. Petersen Elder, dean of GSAS, to consider changing some of the men's dorms to women's dorms, David Feintuch, editor of the Harvard Graduate News; said yesterday. "The answer was a blunt no," he said...
...GSA will disclose the complete results of the poll and accompanying referendum this Wednesday. Yesterday, in conjunction with the GSA release, the Graduate Student Organizing Committee announced that 72% of graduate students voting in a referendum worded exactly like the GSA's called for the "immediate withdrawal" of American forces from Vietnam...
...next meeting, a number of council members had decided that even a referendum was too radical for them and the resolution was rescinded. Much argument and several hours later, the referendum was reinstated, but only with working that severely reduced the chances of a dovish result. Moreover, only GSA members, who constitute only 1500 of the 4500 graduate students and are probably a relatively conservative group, would be allowed to vote. Finally, the number of polling places was restricted...
...council majority was also distressed that David Feintuch, editor of the GSA Bulletin, had transformed it from a monthly notice column into a bi-weekly newspaper, containing features and editorials. When the paper criticized President Pusey's annual report, the council balked. It denied a previously promised seat to the editorial's author, Michael Schwartz. At the same meeting conservative council members spread reports that Dean Elder had called for Feintuch's removal -- reports which Elder has since vigorously denied. Under pressure from the conservatives, the council voted to forbid the Bulletin editor from making statements to the press...
Despite the council's harassment, the GSA activists have managed to squeeze out an emasculated sort of referendum. But the highjinks and obstructionism suggest that working through the council may not be worth the time and trouble...