By the middle of the summer the Freund Committee had finished its work, and the Joint Committee was established to mete out punishment for those members of the Faculty who the Freund Committee indicated were guilty.

The Joint Committee held hearings for the accused and then recommended punishments which were later approved by the Corporation. Their most famous decision was the Stauder case.

But with the Joint Committee one again meets the members of the Committee of Fifteen. For the Joint Committee was composed of two senior members of the Corporation and three Faculty members from the Committee of Fifteen.

This is the first of several functions of the Committee of Fifteen for which it had no clear mandate. The resolution which established the Committee of Fifteen had asked the Committee to deal with the discipline of students involved in the University Hall takeover. It did not mention Faculty discipline.

The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities

The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities is the second instance where, as one Faculty member put it, "the Committee of Fifteen spread its legitimacy mighty thin."

The Committee of Fifteen drew up the plans for this new Committee to enforce the code of rights and responsibilities that was passed by the Faculty last June. The Committee was meant to be a kind of super-Administrative Board, and indeed did include members of the regular Administrative Boards (the regular body for student disciplinary matters). The purpose of the Committee was to deal with incidents like that of last April.

But the right of the Committee of Fifteen to set up this new Committee and then serve on it was not quite as clear as the right of Richard Nixon to live in the White House. Nevertheless, the Faculty passed a resolution recognizing this Committee at its meeting last Tuesday.

James Q. Wilson of the Committee of Fifteen is now its acting chairman.

The Fainsod Committee

The Fainsod Committee actually predates April. It was established in January of 1969. But it only assumed a visible role in the affairs of the Faculty beginning in April.

The Fainsod Committee had as its initial claim to fame that it was the midwife at the birth of the Committee of Fifteen. It set up the ground rules and conducted the elections for that Committee.

Now, however, the Fainsod Committee's nine members are returning to their original task: to look into ways of restructuring the governance of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

This task is probably the most important one facing the Faculty this year, and the recommendations of the Fainsod Committee will be extremely decisive in defining the issues of Faculty power and the role of students in sharing that power.

Miscellaneous

Most important of the Committees not yet considered is the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies. This Committee also existed before April. But its character was radically changed during the crisis, when the Faculty voted to allow six students to become members of the Committee.

This Committee has had the responsibility of developing the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard. It is not, however, to be confused with the search committee of the Afro program, which worked last year to fill Faculty places in the Afro-American Department.

There was, of course, the ROTC negotiating Committee which was established in April to set specific guidelines for any future ROTC contracts with the Defense Department. Its job was short and the Committee had disappeared by mid-May.

Finally, there was the largest committee, the President's Emergency Consultative Committee. It had 68 members from throughout the University including the graduate schools. Its purpose was never any clearer than its title.

This large group met only once, supposedly because it was too big. This does not mean that President Pusey thought it was too big to consult with, or too meaningless to consult with. It was only too big because it met on the second floor of University Hall and an architectural consultant for the University said that the Committee was too big and too heavy a group, in light of the weakness caused to the structure of the Administration building during the April occupation.