Word: monroe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evidently, SDS was not alone in thinking about the question. A series of events, beginning last Spring, convinced Dean Monro that the Administration should give more attention to the place of students in the College's decision-making mechanism. Many developments took Monro by surprise. Last May, for example, a group of students - many of them freshmen--decided that the University had decided too arbitrarily on a policy of dealing with the Selective Service System. They decided to ask for a referendum on the matter, specifically urging that Harvard not compute class rankings to be forwarded to local draft boards...
...them accepted (a major change in parietals came from the HUC, and the HPC asked that students be allowed to take a free fifth course on a pass-fail basis; this is still in the works). When Phillips Brooks House Association indicated it was in financial trouble, Monro, as head of the Faculty committee for PBHA, helped shape a proposal for aid from the Faculty of Art sand Sciences. Undoubtedly, he also helped convince Dean Ford to accept the idea "in principle" (details still remain to be worked...
...presence of SDS has kept pressure on the Administration to consider the role of students in decision-making. By the end of the year, Monro had designated the entire topic for consideration by the Overseers Committee to Visit the College. This Committee has not legislative powers, but the mere tactful discussion marked the new status this subject has gained over the past year...
After the Secretary of Defense was forcibly detained outside Quincy House, the University Administration stepped into the controversy. It joined the Institute in negotiating with the SDS leadership. Dean Monro stated that any recurrence of the McNamara incident could lead to disciplinary action against student participants...
Another confrontation seemed inevitable--one with far more serious consequences in light of the Monro's statement that demonstrators might be disciplined...