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Fred L. Glimp, Dean of the College, handled this immediate situation with the help of some students, senior tutors, House Masters, and junior faculty. (President Pusey and Franklin Ford, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, happened to be out of town that day, but upon learning of the sit in neither man attempted to take control of the situation away from the hands of the amiable, patient college deans and their House helpers.) Glimp rejected offers to bring in Cambridge police, tear gas, and other forms of mechanical coercion. He felt the use of police would only inflame...
Initiative responsibility, then, rested with the deans and the Administrative Board. During the five-day period between the demonstration and the disciplinary decision, pressures fell upon the Board from all sides. Some Faculty members threatened resignation if any students were severed; others demanded punishment. Students were equally ambivalent, but nevertheless expressed their opinions intensely, frequently, and loudly...
...hard to tell exactly where power lies within the Administration and Faculty departments because of their interchanging roles as proposer and approver. Administrators' dependency upon the goodwill of the Faculty, and the Faculty's ultimate sanction through threat of resignation, tend to make the system operate without consistently devisive controversy. (The Corporation, which delegates away its policy-making role, also operates on a consensus basis--some Fellows cannot recall a single vote within the body.) This system is sensitive and vulnerable to pressure; as the Dow solution indicated, majorities do not necessarily matter so much when a minority is strongly...
Some cynics around Harvard have claimed that Ford has used special committees as a means of legitimizing actions he and his personal staff had already agreed upon. Faculty committees have been "mandated", they say, to come in with the already agreed upon recommendations...
...bringing different disciplines together and then leading to undergraduate courses." The number of basic Gen Ed courses has doubled this year. But Ford is quick to add that there is a distinction between an inter-disciplinary approach and an anti-disciplinary one. "A student still needs to have discipline upon which to branch out--it is not a matter of tossing away the catalogue," he says...