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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CENTRAL issue of this strike, as we see it, is the structure of the decision-making process at Harvard. We consider the present power-holders to be incompetent, illegitimate, and inimical to the interests of the Community and the University. therefore, we indict the President and Fellows of Harvard University. We challenge the right and the competence of the Harvard Corporation and its administration to continue making vital decisions without the full participation of Faculty, students and, where applicable, the greater community. Specifically, we challenge the Corporation and its administration to defend and explain the following representative actions and conditions...
...this end wish to affirm our complete support for the program endorsed by Afro, and the striking teaching fellows. We herewith state and affirm our intention not to rest until these demands are met, and urge all students who wish to prevent a recurrence of the present crisis as well as the continuation of Harvard's present irresponsibility to join us until these goals are achieved. LEE A. DANIELS CLYDE E. LINDSAY
...following is the text of the resolution which the Faculty adopted yesterday, setting up the membership and election procedure for the new committee which is to study the causes of the present crisis, assume responsibility for disciplining students involved in the University Hall occupation, and recommend changes in the governance of the University. The plan was presented by the Fainsod Committee. A dissent by two members of the Fainsod Committee is attached...
...meeting was not a victory because a majority of those present supported continuing the strike. The group at Soldiers' Field was not competent to decide whether the strike should continue, since it included people who did not support the demands which the strike is designed to win. If the strike had "lost" yesterday, it would still not have ended. The strike will not end until the people who support the strike demands decide...
...beginning of the voting, however, it became clear that the people present at the meeting were united on a stand against the actions of the Corporation during last week...