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'Radical Structural Reform' Demands

3. No relocation occur until a representative group of community residents, students, and faculty report on all matters pertaining to the University's relation to the Hospital and University Road apartments.

4. The University freeze rents on housing owned by itself and its agents until procedures are established to implement the above guidelines on expansion.

DISCIPLINE

It is extermely important that all of us have full confidence in the justice of any disciplinary action taken against students involved in the seizure of University Hall. The normal processes for the determination of disciplinary measures are ill-suited to the situation. The faculty committee established for this purpose is also inadequate. As members of the community in which the events occured, students have both the right and the obligation to share the responsibility for these decisions. Given the circumstances, selective severance or suspension of students involved in the seizure would have to be very arbitrarily distributed. Mass dismissals would deprive the community of many valuable individuals who are deeply committed to the University.

Therefore we demand that:

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1. An elected committee of faculty and students make the decision on discipline for students involved in the University Hall sit-in, and in any future such incidents.

2. None of these students be severed or suspended.

Removal of financial assistance is an outrageously discriminatory punishment, affecting only those without other resources.

Therefore we demand that:

3. No students be deprived of financial assistance as a result of the Paine Hall demonstration or any other breach of the rules.

STRUCTURE

Demands even if granted can be subverted. This requires that there be a structure, responsible to the Harvard community, which can regulate the implementation of demands. Moreover a representative mechanism would make it possible to deal with future demands in a manner recognized as legitimate by the community. Since the only restriction placed on the Corporation is that it have five members, there is no legal barrier to the following demands.

We demand that:

1. An elected student-faculty committee be created to review policy and consider guidelines for the governance of Harvard.

2. The Corporation recognize the authority of this committee on issues relevant to the life of the community, and its moral and social concerns.

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