Word: senior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event unprecedented in Radcliffe commencement history, Rachel Radio Lieberman '68 read a statement voted overwhelmingly by the senior class supporting men who refuse to serve in the armed forces. The crowd applauded the statement vigorously...
...commencement speaker, Walter Washington, mayor of Washington, D.C., said that universities can help solve our urban problems by learning how to "translate scholarly knowledge into practical action." Frequently departing from his prepared text, Washington (whose daughter Bennetta Jules-Rosette is in the senior class) noted that city administrations and colleges must work together to get anything done...
Fred L. Glimp, Dean of the College, handled this immediate situation with the help of some students, senior tutors, House Masters, and junior faculty. (President Pusey and Franklin Ford, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, happened to be out of town that day, but upon learning of the sit in neither man attempted to take control of the situation away from the hands of the amiable, patient college deans and their House helpers.) Glimp rejected offers to bring in Cambridge police, tear gas, and other forms of mechanical coercion. He felt the use of police would only inflame...
...Columbia conflict, in contrast, was not at all symbolic; the demonstrators' grievances at the university were real and targets included university decision-making in real estate, discipline, and accessibility of senior faculty. Columbia's self-perpetuating Board of Trustees exerts control over faculty and students on most university issues of consequence. Thus Columbia's enormous real estate ventures, which, according to James Ridgway, account for at least half the university's endowment funds, were not open to public or faculty scrutiny, review, or advice. Nor was there any faculty intermediary authority between the administration and the President and Trustees when...
...tradition theoretically means that a collection of chemists and critics, sociologists and historians, governs a complex of offices and institutions that comprise the university. One senior faculty member, speaking informally, summed up the situation last week, noting, "The faculty is not trained as a legislative body. It can't meet more than once a month." At any given meeting of the Faculty, there will be perhaps "250 disorganized amateurs," grappling with issues, many of them purely administrative, that they either do not care to trouble with or feel themselves incapable of handling well...