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WILSON: That's not good enough. Mr. Sheppard can select anybody he wishes in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as his advisor, including students. If he selects you as his advisor and he tells us he selected you as his advisor we must take that in good faith. If in your other capacity you're a CRMSON reporter, we can't do anything about that. On the other hand...
...Committee on Rights and Responsibilities reluctantly conceded yesterday that a student appearing before a fact-finding committee has the right to select as his "advisor" a member of the press...
...Under the system, which was adapted for Harvard use by Kenneth S. Arrow, professor of Economics, the Faculty will select four tenured and two non-tenured members to represent each of the three academic fields-the Social Sciences, the Humanities, and the Natural Sciences...
...only debate on the committee plan centered on the system for choosing the student members. The Fainsod Report suggested a process of indirect election, by which the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee would select student members for the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and the Haryard Undergraduate Council would choose students for the Committee on House and Undergraduate Life...
...rules do serve, it can be argued, to keep the student from scattering his course selections all over everywhere and coming out with nothing but a sort of Reader's Digest education, Intellectual dilettantism. The rules make sure the student at least does something in his four years at Harvard. In the first place, this isn't exactly true: everyone knows it is possible to get a Harvard degree while doing almost nothing for four years but reading an occasional chapter and playing the pin-ball machines. Besides, even if that argument were valid it wouldn't be compelling...