Word: verba
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Green, who recently returned from fundraising-related trips, said he has been in contact with President Neil L. Rudenstine, who is currently away on a trip, and Committee leader Sidney Verba '53, Pforzheimer University professor, about the issue. No decisions have been made, but Green said he hoped the administration would announce a new policy soon...
...Verba committee report, which the full Faculty approved this spring, recommended that Harvard cease paying MIT to train Harvard students in the ROTC program starting with the first-year class in 1994, assuming that the ban was still in place. Green said that since the committee did not discuss the possibility of a ban, new plans will have to be made...
...Right now I think we have to go back to the drawing board," he said. "We will need to get together--the president, Professor Verba, Jeremy Knowles and myself--and decide what the next steps will be. I'm sure there'll be further discussion among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Green would not say whether he thought the military's new policy complied with Harvard's anti-discrimination policy, but Verba said yesterday that he does not think the new policy goes far enough to meet the Harvard guidelines...
Committee chair Sidney Verba '53, who is pforzheimer university professor, also said last week that the committee had not discussed possible routes to tae in the event of a compromise. "If the policy looks like something that opens the possibility that students who are gay can participate in the military, then it might be okay," he said. "Certain versions have seemed to me to remain discriminatory...