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...student-Faculty symposium called by leaders of the Harvard Policy Committee and the Harvard Undergraduate Council ended yesterday without endorsing any specific proposals about student government, Instead, individual participants will contribute proposals to be included in a pamphlet which will be presented at an open meeting on Wednesday, February...
...symposium, which met during intersession, began with separate conferences on the roles of students in the university--education, social life, and administrative decision-making--but it ended by concentrating most of its energies on suggestions for change in the form of student government...
Timothy D. Gould '69, one of the organizers of the symposium, said he will definitely organize a political union, to be called the Coalition for a Democratic University, to continue discussion of "changes more basic to the university." The union's steering committee will be composed of students from the symposium, graduate students, faculty members and interested students in the Houses where chapters of the Coalition are formed. Gould hopes to begin with chapters in Adams and Dunster Houses...
...there was any coherence in the symposium views, they were summarized by Gould's and Epstein's proposals, according to Mary K. Tolbert '69, secretary...
Lance E. Lindblom '70, an HUC member, disagreed. The symposium's purpose had been to suggest a redistribution of power in favor of students to handle issues such as ROTC on which the Faculty and students fundamentally disagree, Lindblom said. He suggested parallel committees topped by a student senate elected at large with proportional representation. The senate's decisions should be final unless overruled by a two-thirds Faculty vote, according to Lindblom...