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...Town of Wellesley is quiet and nice. But in the past week it has shown a new face, a tense, grim face-the result of a play presented memorial Day in the public high school: But the furor in Wellesley extends far beyond anger over the lines of the play and touches a basic fear felt by the community as a whole since the beginning of the year...
...issue apparently boiled down to "Why not?" Master Pappenheimer's subcommittee reported a week ago that Harvard was far behind comparable colleges in its social regulations. Moreover, drastic parietal extensions at schools such as Wellesley have not altered the nature of residence halls noticeably, nor have they disrupted the weekday academic functions of the undergraduates...
Radcliffe's funds also declined in 1966-67, by $448,000. Comparative figures for the seven sister schools showed that Radcliffe's funds in '66-67 were the lowest ($3,922,000). Vassar, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Radcliffe followed in that order...
...demands followed an academic strike by 200 students on April 26. The strike, sponsored by Ethos and Wellesley Against Racism (WAR), called for almost identical reforms. Miss Kristine Olson, a junior and coordinator of WAR, said the administration evaded the demands at that time, offering moral support but stating that the requests would be too difficult to implement...
...president also said that she would meet with the Faculty today to discuss means of insuring that Wellesley courses place sufficient emphasis on black peoples' contributions to society...