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...graced the current discussion with a coherent, well-articulated student power program. HUC president Daniel B. Magraw Jr. '68 wants to place three students each on the Committee on Houses, the Committee on Educational Policy, the Administrative Board, and the Admissions Board. But he has no idea how such large reforms might be implemented...
...Magraw raised the issue of student power in a Sept. 27 letter to the Masters and Deans, who were repelled by the forceful tone he took. "They found it too strong, too drastic, too presumptuous," Eugene Kinasewich, assistant dean, remarked. They also resented the HUC's effort to pressure them with a college-wide poll on parietals. Nevertheless, the Masters agreed informally to meet with the HUC. But when it was reported that Magraw considered such a meeting "unprecedented" and hoped it meant recognition by the Administration of a greater role for students in decision-making, the Masters and Deans...
...conceivable that Magraw, like some radicals, desired a harsh reaction from the Administration, figuring that students--feeling oppressed and frustrated on parietals--would rise up in a grass roots version of student power to confront the Administration. Magraw has said that he became "more impressed" with the potential of civil disobedience tactics after talking with other student leaders at the National Student Association convention last summer. But if that was Magraw's strategy, he badly misjudged both his own organization and the student body. The overwhelming majority of HUC members are committed to change within the system. They want...
Dean Ford last week posed a constitutional objection to Magraw's suggestion that students sit on Faculty committees. "It's not at all clear," Ford said, "that the Faculty would have the right to constitute a committee with other than its members represented...
...Magraw's is not the only scheme to increase student power or influence. Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, who agrees with Magraw that "students should have a more direct and public access to some stage of the decision-making process," has said, "It may be a good idea for policy making bodies to listen formally to student opinion." In this connection, Dean Ford's dinner with the HUC to which the Masters are invited has interesting potential. It will be by far the closest thing to a meeting between the HUC and the Committee on Houses that has ever...