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...until Verba and his package of new rules arrive to lift the Faculty's meeting schedule out of the doldrums, it looks as if there may be another spate of cancellation notices. At least, that's what John R. Marquand, secretary to the Faculty, predicts. He contrasts this year with last, when--despite the three cancellations--the technology transfer issue got the Faculty off to a "'rip-roaring start" and heated debate about minority hiring and the Third World Foundation kept things interesting. Just one factor prevented the Faculty from meeting more often: a widespread belief that a body...
...Still, Marquand notes, an alternative to cancelling meetings wholesale does exist. Back in the mid-1970s, when the Faculty had "a little bit of a problem" getting its quorum of one-sixth to show up, "there was a feeling that there was so little to do that it would be nice if the Faculty could get together to have tea." And so, each month that meetings were scrapped, assorted professors congregated and sipped tea. With this year's ho-hum agenda, and with a pervasive feeling that the full Faculty shouldn't take on an issue until everyone else...
Three months later, he was at Harvard in a cast. "I called John [P.] Marquand [master of Dudley House] and told him I needed an apartment because of my leg. When I got here, a key was waiting...
...John R. Marquand, secretary to the Faculty Council, says the 1969 ruling necessitated the refusal in December. "Legislation was scrutinized to see what the Faculty's response was to ROTC in the past," and no member of the council wanted to challenge the earlier decisions, Marquand adds...
...reestablish ROTC as a full department, a majority of the Faculty would have to vote to reverse its 1969 decision, which Marquand and other Faculty members say is unlikely. If the Army wanted to reintroduce ROTC without academic credit or departmental status, however, some kind of unit could be created without a full Faculty vote, Marquand says...