Word: monroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Construction of the yet unnamed House would sharply reduce the number of students allowed to live off-campus. About 200 lived off-campus this year, but Dean Monro said that as soon as the Tenth House was built the College would revert to a former policy allowing only students who were veterans, who had been away several years, or who had a special reason (such as health) to live off-campus...
Harvard SDS, like its sister chapters elsewhere, wants a student voice in many other Administration decisions besides draft policy. SDS objects to what they call "sophisticated paternalism" whereby John U. Monro, as the Dean of Harvard College, acts as a mediator between different pressure groups within the University and makes the final decisions himself. Instead, the New Leftists would have Monro become "an initiator of discussion" who would administer whatever decisions the entire University community reached. In the SDS plan, faculty members would also play a larger role in University decision-making...
Some changes in this direction have taken place this year at Harvard. The Harvard Policy Committee, an undergraduate group which Monro helped form, has begun a plan to review every department, as well us to criticize the grading system and the faculty tenure system. Also a group of 25 students at the Medical School achieved their demand for an independent study program this Spring, while a similar number at the School of Education gained representation for students on two Faculty committees. These groups have started to acquire the "direct voice" in University policy which SDS insists on, which suggests that...
Most cadets offer hard-headed reasons for entering the program: "The cold fact is that they are going o take me pretty soon one way or another."ROTC officials and DEAN MONRO at recent review of ROTC troops...
...blue permission cards, which were distributed during spring registration, are now void Monro said. "They were a clumsy effort," he continued, "to handle a situation that did not develop." A new system, he explained, will have to be found for next year...