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Three hundred students sat in at aBrown Corporation meeting last April to protest a secret letter in which President Raymond Heffner had assured the U.S. Department of Defense that Brown would allow the Reserve Officer Training Corps to remain on campus...
...Heffner, who also drew sharp criticism for not consulting the faculty before writing the letter, resigned the following month...
Separate student, faculty, and administrative committees are working together to select a new president. Heffner, who is in his late forties, had served only three years...
Finally, in December, President Heffner appointed an extraordinary nine-member committee- headed by associate provost Paul F. Maeder- with a mandate to propose changes in educational philosophy and practice to the Faculty. Magaziner, Miss Friedman, and Friedel were named to the group, as was Eckelmann, an associate dean of Pembroke, and three professors...
...released the 450 page manuscript of its final report in February, 1968. David Riesman, Harvard's Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, would later call it "a Herculean effort, an impressive document." But few members of the faculty took notice. The special faculty sub-committee appointed by President Heffner met twice a week during much of the spring, but made no recommendations. In April, the Brown Daily Herald reported that the "vast majority of the faculty was unaware" of the report...