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When the assessment was made, three options were open. The Switchboard could continue as it had on the original $1500, which was rapidly being exhausted. This action, or rather non-action, would inevitably lead to the death of the project in June. The second possibility was to reconfront Bok in an effort to attain University financial support, a request which Bok had already rejected. These first two options were ruled...
...most recent budget for operation of the Switchboard is assessed by its founders at $13,700. This includes a salary for a full-time coordinator...
Amidst all the administrative cat and mouse play which unfortunately left the ball resting in Whitlock's lap. Gensler and Farago resigned from People Switchboard, as pledged, and with the exception of a bare minimum of publicity work, they ceased to work in any major capacity on the project. The two seniors were no longer willing to continue their major effort unless they could be assured by the Administration that the project had a future in Harvard College. Following his resignation, Gensler told Whitlock that continuing to man the Switchboard as they had would be like "beating a dead horse...
...Administration should give full financial support to People Switchboard. Commitment to educational reform is part of Harvard's responsibility as an institution which enjoys respect in progressive academic circles. The Administration must realize that Harvard inherently possesses enough untapped, competent human resource to make broader approaches possible without preventing faculty and students from engaging in traditional scholarship...
Interest in education at Harvard is exactly what its students, faculty and Administration should be into. Interest in education at Harvard is precisely what People Switchboard is into...