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...defense of the four families, national SDS headquarters in Boston last night began organizing student opposition groups against future eviction attempts. An ad hoc group from Haryard yesterday said it is preparing a leaflet explaining the eviction controversy...
Helpful as these informal contacts have been, they suffer from the disability of being largely ad hoc, and they ordinarily represent the result of student rather than faculty initiative. We believe that there is a strong case to be made for the exercise of greater departmental initiative in establishing regularized machinery for consulting with undergraduate concentrators. From the student point of view, such arrangements have the advantage of providing a recognized channel through which grievances can be ventilated, criticisms expressed, and proposals for change discussed with the Faculty. From the departmental point of view, the existence of such machinery...
...flow of communication and consultation between faculty and students at every level. In some respects Harvard College has been fortunate. The House Plan and the tutorial system provide an infrastructure which makes for relatively easy informal relationships between students and junior teaching staff. But, helpful as these ad hoc contacts have been, we believe that they need to be supplemented by arrangements which will bring students into a closer relationship with the more formal decision-making machinery of the Faculty. We think that such a result can best be achieved through a wider use of joint student-faculty committees which...
...Faculty should now begin a more orderly process of developing answers to outstanding issues-through committees, the only means by which a legislative body of 500 men with limited time can provide coherent answers to complex and divisive questions. To provide an efficient division of labor, several ad?hoc committees should cach deal with one important issue and present its recommendations for action to the Faculty...
...moment. Nor does the selection of issues presume that changes in present policies are required on each issue; it only indicates that these issues are those under the jurisdiction of the Faculty which seem to be of most concern at present. The existence of such a series of ad hoc investigative committees should not become an excuse for other groups to relax their consideration of these problems. Rather, they should step up, using the committees as one focus of their efforts...