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...matter as directly dependent on students' image of themselves and the University, consultation is at best a stop-gap measure. The Faculty is scheduled to reconsider the matter of student representation on the Fainsod Committee at its March 4 meeting. It should broaden Fainsod's mandate to give students voting seats on the committee...
...SHORT LIFE, Social Relations 148 has raised important educational issues for Harvard, and indeed, for many American colleges. These issues spring not so much from the course's content as from its structure. They are issues which should be discussed and debated publicly, not resolved in a stop-gap fashion for this course alone...
...welfare rights is obviously a stop-gap approach, and SRRP director Don Jelinek was trying for a frontal attack on the welfare and food systems. His aim was to change programs like Commodities and Food Stamps into realistic plans based on the rural families' needs, and not on the needs of the Agriculture Department...
...this gave rise to certain stop-gap measures. Mayor Cavanagh set up a rumor-control service; anyone wishing to check out a story could dial a number for information. A group of businessmen called MUST (Men United for Sane Thought) placed ads in suburban newspapers and on radio and TV, urging their fellow citizens to keep cool and not to buy arms...
These changes apply only to African studies and only next year (Ford calls them "strictly stop-gap"). A Faculty Committee on Afro-American Studies was created about a month ago, and when its recommendations for a permanent Harvard program of Afro-American studies are formed and adopted the cross-registration will probably be phased...