January 19: President Pusey, repeating his earlier stand, turned down a request by Mrs. Bunting and several House Masters for a co-ed living exchange. The Masters of Winthrop House and Radcliffe's new Currier House asked Pusey whether the two houses could exchange students when Currier opened in 1970. Pusey said no girls could live at Harvard, since Radcliffe was still administratively separate from the Harvard Faculty.
The Ford Foundation gave the Law School a $1 million grant to establish a Center for the Advancement of Criminal Justice, where policemen, judges, and other law enforcement officers could come and do research on problems of crime and justice.
January 21: At is special meeting on student participation, the Faculty appointed a committee to study the whole Faculty legislative process and adopted a plan to let some students into Faculty meetings while the committee worked on its report. The committee was give 90 days to produce a report of "the structure, procedures, and decision-making processes of the Faculty," and in the interim, Dean Ford was allowed to invite selected students to specific portions of Faculty meetings. The Faculty also postponed its several-times-interrupted ROTC meeting until February 4.
At Radcliffe, the Judicial Board finally revealed its punishment plan for the 21 Paine Hall Cliffies. The Board offered the girls a choice of two punishments--either going on probation for the Spring semester, or organizing and conducting panel discussions on "the Governance of the University."
The Radcliffe Admissions Office said it was making encouraging progress in attracting black students. The number of black applicants to the 'Cliffe was nearly twice as great as last year's, and the Admissions office said that its recruiting trips were convincing black girls to come to Cambridge.
The Faculty's special committee on African and Afro-American studies released its mammoth report and recommended that Harvard set up a degree-granting program in Afro-American Studies. The report--the product of nine months of work by chairman Henry Rosovsky and the other committee members--spent many pages discussing the "quality of black student life at Harvard" and suggested a new student center for blacks. In a section dealing with the graduate schools, the report said that Harvard should step up its recruiting of black graduates and should provide 15 to 20 special fellowships for blacks in the grad school.
January 23: Dean Ford, using his newly-granted power, invited students from three campus organizations to attend the Faculty's February 4 ROTC meeting, Ford asked the chairman of the HRPC, the HUC, and the SFAC to choose three representatives apiece.
Paine Hall demonstrators from the Divinity and Education Schools found out they would not be punished for sitting-in. The Divinity School asked its three demonstrators to attend a panel on the issues raised by the sit-on, while the four Ed School demonstrators simply got a letter from the school's dean saying he was "concerned about the inappropriateness" of the or action.
At the Design School, a new course called "An End to Urban Violence" met opposition from several students. The students said they objected to the course's "racist plans" for "simply dealing with the effects of riots and not considering the causes."
February
February 3: 700 Students turned out for a Faculty-sponsored convocation and heard the last public debate about the role of the military at Harvard before the Faculty's meeting on ROTC. Spokesmen from four groups ranging from SDS to ROTC summarized their arguments behind their groups' stands and then answered questions from the audience.
February 4: The Faculty voted to strip ROTC of its academic credit and take Corporation appointments away from ROTC instructors. By a 207-125 vote, the Faculty approved a five-point resolution from the SFAC which would take away appointments and credit, remove ROTC courses from the Faculty catalogue, end ROTC's rent-free use of Shannon Hall, and replace lost ROTC scholarships with Harvard money. By the same 200-125 margin, the Faculty rejected the CEP's proposal, which would have made individual ROTC courses apply for credit within existing departments. The other ROTC resolution presented--an SDS-supported plan to expel ROTC from Harvard--lost on a voice vote by a large 8-1 ratio.
The effect of the Faculty's vote was not immediately clear. Even though the removal of professional appointments might clash with existing laws, Colonel Pell said he would ask the Pentagon to keep the ROTC units here on a non-credit basis. Pell also pointed out that the Corporation's contract with Army ROTC required a one-year notice before either side could make changes in the ROTC arrangements.
February 5: The national director of Army ROTC, General C.P. Hannum, said that prospects for retaining ROTC at Harvard were "extremely good." Harvard said he was "sure we'll be able to work something out with Harvard."
Members of Afro and SDS joined the protest against the Design School's course on Urban Violence. Afro members said the course was "obviously designed to put down riots," and agreed to attend the first course meeting en masse. SDS published a leaflet saying that "students should demand that the course be cancelled."
