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...finds the heat to be a "social" and not an "academic" issue, and Harvard refuses to get involved until the Holyoke Center air conditioning fails. Meeting in emergency session, the Faculty votes to allow people to eat in the Faculty Club without coats and ties. After the meeting, George Wald calls reporters into his test tube to applaud the decision. "It's not the heat," he explains. "It's the humility." The crisis ends after two weeks when air pollution finally blocks out the sun completely. Both the liberal and conservative Faculty caucuses take credit for this last-minute arrangement...
...here's to George Wald. our favorite worrier...
...George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, explained the history behind the protest. "I thought their sign was insulting-a damned disgrace, in fact-that they should be telling Faculty members how to dress. A year ago or more I wrote a letter about it, but was told that the House Committee of the Faculty Club had voted to retain the rule...
...testified said that they felt women end up in jobs "off the main ladder" from teaching positions in the professorial hierarchy. "Most of the people on the teaching ladder in the Biology Department are men; most of those in research [which can be part-time] are women," Ruth Wald, a research associate in that department, said...
...meeting, chaired by Wald, voted to establish approximately ten "locals"-autonomous coalitions of labor and academic leaders in each of the major industrial centers in the country. The meeting also elected a committee of nine to act as a "clearing house" to facilitate communications between each of the local chapters. The committee will have no policy-making power...