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...SFAC was established to be such a political channel. Its actual achievements during the year have been meagre, but the very fact of its continued existence as a body will provide a certain legitimacy for the Committee on which it could build in the future...
...SFAC thus got bogged down early in endless wrangles. One other reason for the delay was that the Committee members did not have a clear understanding of their lack of power. Initially, the Committee thought it was like one of the Faculty subcommittees whose recommendations are usually automatically approved by the full Faculty...
This led to extreme caution on the part of the SFAC and an exaggerated concern for its "image." However, since the Committee was a political body and not an expert subcommittee, the Faculty was not prepared to allow the SFAC such unlimited jurisdiction. The point was brutally made when an SFAC request that an upcoming repeat visit by Dow recruiters be postponed was summarily rejected by the Faculty...
This rebuff loosened the logjam a little because SFAC members now felt free to take positions without having to worry about automatic approval--just as the House of Lords feels a certain freedom about initiating daring legislation secure in the knowledge that the Commons will subject everything to close scrutiny...
Thus when the final SFAC resolution on recruiting appeared at the end of the year it included an elaborate proposal under which students could petition, under certain checks, to require that a particular company be banned from recruiting at Harvard. The Faculty, while accepting certain other more moderate proposals, promptly struck this clause down...