Word: sfac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After six meetings, the SFAC has made a total of two recommendations to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. One of them--a request to seat one of its own members who was on Dow probation--was approved. The other--a request to postpone Dow's second visit to Harvard--was rejected...
...best, the SFAC is the "debating society" that progenitor Stanley Hoffmann hoped it would never become. Three question-and-answer sessions--with President Pusey, John B. Fox Jr. '59 of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, and three SDS officials--have spiced up proceedings somewhat, but they have led to few important discoveries and no action. Committee work too has been largely ineffective and for the most part unenlightening...
Raines, one of three freshmen on the Student-Faculty Advisory Council, said that "if the great majority of freshmen oppose the draft and campus recruiting, we will propose that the SFAC draft a resolution reflecting the sentiment of the students...
...other action, the SFAC passed a motion encouraging its student members to initiate polls of student opinion on matters before the Council. The polls would be taken after the Council passes a resolution and before the resolution goes to the Faculty...
Such polls, the members reasoned, would give added weight to SFAC resolutions before the Faculty...