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...MEMBER committee chaired by Karl Strauch, professor of Physics, is meeting this fall to finalize its recommendations to Presidents Bok and Horner on the future of Harvard and Radcliffe admissions policies...
THERE are obviously many more complications to these questions that the committee chaired by Karl Strauch, professor of Physics, must deal with before making any recommendations to Presidents Bok and Horner. But the Strauch Committee is still expected to submit its final report in February and it is conceivable that, if approved, the changes they outline could begin to be instituted...
Like most specially appointed University committees, the Strauch Committee is formulating its recommendations in private and will only offer them to the community after giving the final report to Bok and Horner. While the committee has solicited outside information from other universities and asked interested groups and individuals to present testimony, the weekly meetings are generally closed to outsiders. The minutes are strictly for the use of committee members and will not be released even after the committee has finished its task. Strauch has emphasized to reporters and members of his committee that he should be the only spokesman...
...simply going on record as favoring one alternative or another. Once the committee's preferences become known, there will undoubtedly be far more outside interest. If the community does not have the opportunity to react to the recommendations of the committee until after they have gone to Bok and Horner, much of the input that Strauch claims is necessary will be lost. By formulating recommendations in private, the Strauch Committee is even likely to further polarize the current range of opinion--once recommendations become official, those who disagree with them are forced to attempt to change them by mass petitioning...
Last fall Presidents Bok and Horner appointed a committee--of administrators, faculty, alumni and students--to be chaired by Karl Strauch, professor of Physics, to study the relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe and to make specific recommendations regarding admissions policy...