Word: sfac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Radcliffe and Harvard students voiced dissatisfaction with the administration, the Faculty found a solution--a bowl of alphabet soup. The Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC), Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee (HRPC), Students Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC), and Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), which still lingers, formed the new student bureaucracy. Ten years ago, the Committee on the Organization of the Faculty--formed after a Paine Hall sit-in protesting Faculty unresponsiveness to students' needs--established the familiar Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and Committee on Undergraduate Education...
...Committee issued its final report in mid-October 1969, abolishing HUC, HRPC and SFAC. Fainsod proposed student voting rights on an expanded version of HUC. The four-year-old HUC, which passed resolutions favoring a quick end to the Vietnam war and the elimination of parietals, also intiiated and occasionally completed, studies of the University Health Services, Food Services, admissions policy and hiring practices. Under its new mandate, the Fainsod Committee dealt with "undergraduate life." Hence, CHUL...
...week before the Faculty was scheduled to consider ROTC, the SFAC presented its resolution, an amalgamation of the HUC and HRPC proposals. The resolution--to be offered to the Faculty by Rogers Albritton, professor of Philosophy--put forth a five-point plan for ending ROTC's academic status...
...that evolved would have forced all ROTC courses and professors to reapply individually for academic status through any of Harvard's existing departments. James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, who was to present the CEP recommendation to the Faculty, suggested that the plan would be as effective as the SFAC plan in abolishing credit. After all, he asked, "What department would approve the courses?" But the comment reportedly made by Col. Robert H. Pell, professor of Military Science and director of Army ROTC, that the CEP resolution "couldn't have pleased me more" made ROTC opponents uneasy about Wilson...
...February 4, with nine specially-invited students present (the first "open" Faculty meeting in Harvard's history), the Faculty voted, 207-125, to approve the SFAC proposal, with-drawing academic credit from all ROTC courses. The SFAC resolution made no mention of the possibility of according extracurricular status to ROTC, a move supported by the Corporation. And at that time Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty, declined to speculate on ROTC's future at Harvard. But Col. Pell said that the Faculty's decision "would ultimately drive ROTC from the campus...