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...said, Dean Monro intended simply to examine undergraduate attitudes on such matters as parietal rules and pre-marital intercourse, he need not have attempted to create a highly emotional atmosphere by hinting at scandal. In choosing to have the discussion go beyond Harvard, he has implied that the Masters and senior tutors are not competent to make decisions on parietal rules and has clouded the whole issue with further emotionalism...
...first sentence of Dean Monro's oft quoted but little understood letter to the CRIMSON on parietal rules said: "Your editorial on 'Parietal Rules' (CRIMSON, October 1) has the good effect of sharpening up our discussions of the basis of our regulations." Dean Monro felt that "we must discuss parietal rules in moral terms." The CRIMSON, on the contrary, felt and still maintains that "as long as a student adheres to certain necessary rules of order, his moral code is his own business," and not that of University Hall; parietal rules should derive from the need of student...
...this disagreement aside, both Dean Monro and the CRIMSON desired an honest, public discussion in well considered language. The CRIMSON has long sought frank statements from administrators on parietals in order to create a dialogue based on real issues. This Fall, the deans have expressed a desire to discuss parietals, so that the rules, actual or modified, might be better enforced. By airing the desires of students, faculty members, and administrators, the CRIMSON has hoped to facilitate finding a practical solution to parietal problems that is maximally beneficial to all, and possibly rational...
This purpose was ill served by the phrases which cried "Scandall" in Dean Monro's letter. His waving the bloody shirt triggered a press scandal which has confused discussion. Taken out of context, phrases like "license to use the college rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse," "unrestricted sexual behavior," and "closer and closer to outright scandal," are simply inflammatory. They suggest wrongly that wild parties run rampant and Harvard; Harvard students know how rare such parties...
...Boston press was sure to take these phrases out of context and use them to inflame. It did. The stories in the Boston and national press fabricated scandal from the threat of scandal in Dean Monro's letter. Such massive background noise makes sensible discussion of attitudes toward parietals even more difficult...