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Phillips Brooks House has tried, and failed, to excite some Faculty interest in the Inner Belt. PBH's idea was to circulate a Faculty-student petition against the eight-lane highway and to call for a halt in planning until a major new transportation study for the metropolitan area had been completed...
...thing is not that this project floundered-because of PBH's own bureaucratic tangles-but that it was needed in the first place. Faculty members, many of whom live in the city, have apparently remained oblivious to the Belt and its implications for Cambridge. There has hardly been a stir of protest, though such a stir-had it come early enough and had it been large enough-might have bolstered considerably the campaign against the highway. It might still do some good, but most Faculty members apparently care little that the expressway may go through the center of Central Square...
Your story of Dec. 14, 1966, "Prison Officials Drop PBH Play" unfortunately presents an incomplete picture of the situation. In fact, the play was cancelled because it was not an appropriate choice for the prison, especially since it contained only three male roles and more inmates wanted to participate. An alternative is already under consideration and we plan to produce it in the near future. Had your reporter checked with us, the picture she presented would have been more balanced. Bill Schaefer, Chairman, Ron Rotunda, Vice Chairman The Prisons Committee
According to Peter B. Rosenbaum '67, president of PBH, the committee is designed as an experiment to study ways that both PBH and the Harvard community can learn to take a stand on vital local issues...
Until the organizational meeting which will be held sometime after Thanksgiving, however, the PBH cabinet considers all plans of action extremely tentative...