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...voices of discontent claim that students suffer from gaps in the curriculum, from boring and conventional teaching methods, and from the lack of an effective voice in school policy decisions. Dissatisfaction came to a head in February of 1966 when several ad hoc groups formed to agitate for specific reforms. A group of thirty students asked for two supplementary non-credit seminars on group process and social change, and their request was granted by Dean Sizer. A smaller group began its own study of the problems of urban education, a crucial area which they felt the school was ignoring...
...Bunting herself admitted, the Council members were "antagonized by the hunger strike" which prompted the forming of the Ad Hoc Committee. That explains where the Council went wrong: they simply failed to see beyond their hostility. But it doesn't explain some of the administration's negligence in presenting the committee's case. Dean Barbara Solomon, who had agreed to prepare the recommendations in time for study by the Council members before the meeting, still has not explained why she failed to do so. Jacqueline Lindsay, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, says she called Dean Solomon before the meeting...
...Bunting and the Radcliffe College Council are alarmingly consistent when it comes to squashing student efforts at reform of pre-conceived plans for the college. It was no surprise, then, when the College Council last week tabled or rejected all the recommendations submitted by the student-Faculty Ad Hoc Committee on Housing...
...Hoc Committee recommendations were in fact direct challenges to Mrs. Bunting's plans for the College's immediate future. They would have thrown open the decision on the future of the House system to the student body, and allowed for immediate flexibility in letting Cliffies live on campus, in private apartments, or in the small comfortable off-campus houses that Radcliffe presently plans to eliminate...
There is no reason to believe, however, that the House is justified in establishing ad hoc, and unspecified, requirements each time it considers barring a member-elect. When the Senate was debating the exclusion of a Utah polygamist, Sen. Knox of Pennsylvania maintained that moral qualifications should remain the province of the electorate, as it expresses itself at the polls, and insisted that Congress restrict itself to objective criteria. But Congress has excluded such unpopular personages as the polygamist; Victor Berger, a Wisconsin Socialist opposed to American participation in World War I; and assorted sympathizers with the South during...