Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Progressives do not like the idea of having their names always available in University Hall. Motivated by a perfectly natural if not altogether rational fear of the forces of orthodoxy, they are reluctant to put their lists in the hands of the Dean's Office. Dean Watson has admitted that he could not refuse a subpoena of the lists; so that even if one assumes that the Dean's Office will hold the lists inviolate in every other case, there is this one case in which the lists might be delivered up for outside scrutiny...
...recent dispute between Dean Watson and the Young Progressive illustrates perfectly the consequences of rigid application of rigid rules. It proves again that administrative legalism does not provide the proper atmosphere in which to carry on student activities...
...Dean Watson has indicated that such an action is not beyond the bounds of possibility. Since he has not yet acted, and since he has been generous to the YP's in allowing them time to seek advisers, we cannot accuse him of having a consuming desire to destroy the organization. But he has not displayed any fundamental dislike of the idea that the group should be broken up if it cannot find advisers. The forced disbanding of the YP's is still possible, though not likely. And the very fact that it can be considered a possibility...
Beveridge said last night that Watson had not indicated that alumni who were not members of the faculty could be advisers, and had mentioned only professors when suggesting possible advisers. The Rules for Undergraduate Organizations, however, speaks of "faculty or alumni advisers...
Beveridge said that even though the Y.P.'s will now try graduates he is not sure that they will be able to find the two advisers required. Whether the group will be refused recognition by the Deans' Office if it falls to fill the requirement is not yet clear. Watson yesterday refused to discuss the eventuality