Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft also acts on the students to alter the old relationship. The draft is a threat to their personal and political beliefs, and a threat to their education. Two Harvard students recently were reclassified I-A and subject to induction after turning in their draft cards at an anti-war demonstration. The two talked to deans and faculty members, who patted them on the back but told them there was nothing the University could do about it all but Good Luck. The Dunster House Senior Common Room lent its sympathy in a weak-kneed petition, defying a rule against such...
Before World War II the Harvard Administration viewed its relationship with students as custodial. In loco parentis was the rule. The University was the authoritarian father to the students. It protected them, but it demanded obedience. Until the war, the University felt that it could require students to act in certain ways and expect students to respond. Requirements were not strict, but the point of view of the custodian shaped policy...
...relationship between the University and the students is reaching a crisis. The traditional liberal playpen is irrelevant. Harvard is, however reluctantly, supporting the war and the draft by its actions. It is neither politically nor morally neutral. It could not be if it wanted. Those days are over now. Meanwhile, educational policy is being disrupted (How can we justify ranking students for Selective Service but refuse to go along with the NCAA's guidelines on grading?), and worse, students are being snatched out of school for their beliefs...
...traditional liberal stance of the University is irrelevant, what do the students want their relationship with Harvard to be? There are two stances: First, they want a reversion to the custodial role but with a moral imperative behind it. That is, the University should, by its actions, take a stand against the war, and protect its students from the draft with its own power as an insitution...
...experimental success with Ellie is a prelude to a trial with a human hemophiliac. In most cases the plan is for a normal mother to donate her spleen--which is not usually a vital organ--to her hemophiliac son. The close genetic relationship between mother and son would minimize the difficulty of the transplant...