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Senior Common rooms are essentially associations of faculty members who have an interest in undergraduates; hence appropriate topics for discussion and comment by them include any issues which affect undergraduates. The participation of Harvard students in a selective service system through which they benefit from an inequitable distribution of the burden of military service is certainly an issue. It is not, of course, a typical topic for discussion in senior common rooms (as is, for example, the propriety of mini-skirts in house dining halls). Our hope in discussing the issue of deferments and passing the resolution was to suggest...
Mark Katz, another junior, was not so lucky. Since he was interested in international affairs, he signed up for a conference on Congress and foreign policy. The faculty leader of this conference altered the topic to Congress and national security, and with a few flips of the coin (literally), Katz was studying "How military strategy is formed...
Michael Harrington, author of The Other America, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall. His topic is "The Case for Democratic Socialism...
...presence of SDS has kept pressure on the Administration to consider the role of students in decision-making. By the end of the year, Monro had designated the entire topic for consideration by the Overseers Committee to Visit the College. This Committee has not legislative powers, but the mere tactful discussion marked the new status this subject has gained over the past year...
...order to stay in touch with his students, Alden holds twice-monthly breakfasts with them and semiannual conferences at which they can grill him on any topic they wish. He also plans to spend occasional nights in the dorms. Alden often shucks his glasses and joins students in a pickup basketball game on the court behind the presidential house. His kind of enthusiasm spreads to his staff. At many universities, says Fine Arts Dean Jack Morrison, things "slow down at the top-but that's where things begin to swing around here...