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...latest battle over parietals--massacre is more like it--began two months ago when a Lowell House sophomore named John Palazzo was "humiliated," as he tells it, by the superintendent. He forgot to sign in a female guest one night and the incident was very embarrassing, Palazzo says. He thinks he might have lost the girl because of it. But the incident also started something very big--a fanatic-paced last-ditch drive for the liberalization (or perhaps eradication) of Harvard's parieal rules...
...over, after the Masters and the Deans had said NO a week ago today, some very important things had occurred: virtually every House had shown overwhelming support for the changes, Lowell's Master Zeph Stewart had come out publicly and forcefully against the present parietal system, and Palazzo and his boys had begun a new movement to make the Houses autonomous units...
...parietals poll in his House. He realized that so late in the year, after there had already been one change, there was no chance of success for the parietal proposal in the committee. Magraw chose to wait it out. The HUC never touched parietals during the whole time that Palazzo was collecting signatures on his various petitions and polls. The HUC just kept its hands clean. Magraw wouldn't be identified by the Masters and the Deans as one of those pushy Lowell House radicals. Then, at least, Magraw said, there would be a chance for something next year...
Magraw said before the committee met, "The push for the Friday extension [in the Fall] was a slick, behind-the scenes affair, low-key and rational." He thought that the Palazzo movement was "just the opposite," cramping the committee's style. "It's not that I like it that way," the HUC head said later. "That is just the way the Masters work. It's regrettable, but that is the way we have to approach this thing to get changes...
...questionnaire similar to Palazzo's has been circulated in Adams House, and the results are being compiled. Fred Fox '68, who drafted the Adams' inquiry, said he wanted to gauge student opinion before spreading a petition...