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...Dean Monro said yesterday that the College would not issue an official statement or take any other action in behalf of John W. Perdew '64, a vounteer civil rights worker facing trial in Americus, Ga., on a charge that could lead to his execution. He added, however, that he personally thought Perdew's situation was "terrible...
...have to make the distinction between Harvard as an institution and as a group of individuals," Monro said. As an individual, he indicated, he would welcome a fund-raising campaign to pay for legal counsel for Perdew and three other students in Northern colleges who were jailed nearly two months...
...pretty clear that the charges against Perdew are un-Constitutional," Monro said. "The main thing to do now is to exercise his legal rights and get him out of jail. I think this is a great cause for the Harvard student body to get behind in one way or another...
...once Harvard can learn from Yale; reliable civilian advice on Selective Service policies has been long overdue here. A Harvard student presently seeking such counsel from the registrar's office gets only a "we don't know." From Dean Monro he hears that "the whole situation is too complicated for us to get involved with." And advisors at the Office for Graduate and Career Plans tell him "we only know what we read in the papers." With the draft age moving down to 22, the inadequacy of such answers and the responsibility of the University to inform itself and then...
...Dean Monro and Watson last week expressed deep distress over what they consider to be "a loose moral situation" at Harvard. Dean Monro said present parietal rules and enforcement policies "are encouraging students to think we approve" of immorality, and Dean, Watson proposed a study of the whole situation, saying he was "very seriously" considering a recommendation to cut back parietals...