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...ISSUE from Harvard's complicity in the war effort to insufficient funds for staff meal pools in the Houses, undergraduate opposition to University policies crystallizes in a highly predictable way. Ad hoc groups evolve, bring their complaints to the Faculty and Administration, get turned down, and disband, complaining that a Bok-Dunlop oligarchy is frustrating student demands. If and when the Administration responds to these petitions, their rejections are equally typical; each explanation, in part, insists that student protestors without a broad base of support cannot claim legitimacy as undergraduate negotiators...
...frustration of these campaigns is easy to understand. Questions of good faith aside, the Administration knows that even in a highly tense situation, the energy behind ad hoc student coalitions eventually diffuses. Activists are left pleading for a top-down revolution, for an imperial bestowal of democratic privileges from the Faculty to the students...
Students last April could have organized more quickly had a subcommittee on Afro-American affairs existed in each House. No ad hoc student agency would have been needed for support and publicity; the mechanism for organizing students would have already been in action...
...Review Committee also recommends that Dean Dunlop converse ad hoc Faculty committees, consisting of approximately five people, to look for the three additional Faculty members. These ad hoc committees should consist of the chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, plus two Faculty members from other disciplines...
...Hoc Committee Against Exit Fees for Professionals in the Soviet Union voted at a meeting last night to present a petition to Dr. Mestislav Keldysh, the Academy president, and other noted Soviet scientists who are meeting with Harvard and MIT physics professors. The Committee has accumulated 3000 signatures from the Harvard community which they will present at the demonstration...