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...Strong Debate...
Helpful as these informal contacts have been, they suffer from the disability of being largely ad hoc, and they ordinarily represent the result of student rather than faculty initiative. We believe that there is a strong case to be made for the exercise of greater departmental initiative in establishing regularized machinery for consulting with undergraduate concentrators. From the student point of view, such arrangements have the advantage of providing a recognized channel through which grievances can be ventilated, criticisms expressed, and proposals for change discussed with the Faculty. From the departmental point of view, the existence of such machinery...
Despite the reservations expressed by some of the Masters, we urge the inclusion of students in the voting membership of the Committee on Houses, because we believe that this is an area in which students have both a strong interest and an important contribution to make. In so far as the Committee on Houses may deal with matters involving restrictions on the autonomy of the Houses, such restrictions are likely to be much more acceptable to members of the individual Houses if they are made by a body in which students as well as faculty have an important voice...
...from the technical problems involved in opening meetings to general student attendance (the problem of providing room for students in the event that they attend in great numbers, and the difficulty of discriminating among students in the event that attendance is permitted in limitednumbers), we have also encouraged a strong feeling among some members of the Faculty that the presence of what they describe as a live gallery with a potential for demonstrations might exercise an inhibiting effect on debate and change the character of the Faculty as a deliberative body. We should, however, point out that the precedents already...
...exists. Others may prefer separate faculty and student committees, which meet jointly at regular intervals but retain their freedom to meet independently and frame their own recommendations. We also anticipate that arrangements for choosing student members of such committees will vary among departments. Our consultations with students revealed a strong preference for the election of student representatives rather than nomination by the faculty. In the case of departments with especially large concentrations, we would suggest that if elections are held concentrators in each House choose their own representative. We would particularly urge that teaching fellows and tutors be included...