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...body which meets regularly and whose student members, at least, have been elected by their fellow students. This year's Faculty representatives, on the other hand, were directly appointed by President Pusey--but the membership seemed to reflect the entire range of Faculty opinion. In this sense then, the SFAC could well be the prototype for a genuine "parliamentary" body at Harvard--and as such a welcome addition to the already fluid communications network between groups that exists at the University...
...SFAC position was explained before the Faculty vote, and if there is a chance the resolution will be interpreted differently, in fairness to SFAC it must be brought back to the Faculty floor for a vote of reconsideration...
...administrators question the enforceability of the second section of SFAC's resolution which stipulates that an organization "shall be required to discuss its policies at a public meeting" if 500 students petition for such a meeting. The third part of SFAC's resolution (defeated decisively by the Faculty) can be read to say that even those organizations which turned down the petition for a public meeting would only be barred after a second petition asking that they not be allowed on campus...
...that was not SFAC's intention, the resolution's author Rogers Albritton and its main opponent Oscar Handlin have both said since. The clause on public meetings was intended to be binding in itself; a petitioned company that refuses a public meeting would not be allowed to come to the Office of Graduate and Career Plans...
Some clarification is probably in order in any case. The innocuous first clause of the SFAC resolution instructs the Office of Graduate and Career Plans to make its facilities open to "the broadest possible range of organizations offering information relevant to the future plans and careers of Harvard and Radcliffe students." The political implications are clear--the American Friends gets equal time and space with...