Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before the administration and faculty sit back and drink another highball for a job well done, they should be advised that there are, indeed, some who feel that much of the student participation at this university is nothing but "tokenism." President Harnwell sits on the University Forum to placate students, not to "discuss any issue they consider important." If anyone thinks that the footin-the-door which students have gained is student power, they are deluded. The "quiet revolution" that you find so reassuring is going to heat...
Today, the thirty-five members of the Board of Trustees meet for the second of their tri-annual sessions. On their agenda will be both the new constitution of Radcliffe Union of Students and an amendment to alter the Radcliffe Statutes, allowing students to sit on the Radcliffe Council--the College's most important decision-making body. Far from a revolutionary surge, the proposals represent a genuine effort at dialogue on student-administration concerns. The Trustees should not pass up this opportunity for open-minded consideration of student demands...
...vital points from its RGA predecessor: it calls for student autonomy in making amendments and student representation on the College Council. Though it is not the Trustees but the Council, at its meeting next Monday, that will have the final say on the constitution, all the Council members also sit on the Board of Trustees and the opinions expressed at the Board meeting are bound to carry weight...
...Trustees do have to decide on any amendment to the Statutes, but the process is a complicated one. They will discuss the proposal to let students sit on the Council, but a vote has to be delayed for one meeting at which time a majority of the Trustees must vote on it. The Board sits again in June but this session is always poorly attended, so the matter will probably have to wait until September...
...contrast, the conduct of the Administration during the sit-in only further justified the students' legitimate protest. Nabrit was out of the country during the demonstration, and the University did not even talk to the student protestors before they ordered the school closed. It was almost two days before Administration officials sat down with students to discuss their demands. Several times University officials threatened to obtain a court injunction which would have brought Federal Marshals on the campus. The students sensed the bluff and only after student leaders made it clear that they would remain in the Administration building--injunction...