Joint Student-Faculty Committees are not allowed to do more than discuss issues and make recommendations.

Within the departments, there is no continuing mechanism for Faculty-student dialogue.

We could continue, but the picture is more than clear. Students are not so much a constituency, force, and raison d'etre of the University as a resource of the Corporation, to be manipulated to its own advantage. Only the Corporation and its Administration will have any meaningful say in the affairs of the University and it shall be the final arbiter of the interests of both the students and the Faculty. The Corporation has not the slightest intention of allowing its power and perceptions to be questioned, or of allowing its goals for the University to be challenged.

We do definitely question the programs, the conduct, the responsibility, and the legitimacy of the Corporation. Its members have consistently failed the standards of good faith, truth, openness, and dedication to the bettermen of their fellow men on which every university, let alone this one, must be founded.

Harvard University is now and always will be as much the property of its student body as of the Corporation. We must no longer tolerate from the Corporation such callous and irresponsible conduct, conduct inimical to the interests of every segment of the University community, as well as the broader external community. More than this, we cannot allow any recurrences of this conduct. Even if the Corporation were to make a complete about face on its policies at this very moment, there would be no guarantee that these policies would not be resumed again tomorrow. Experience has shown that we can no longer have any faith in the judgement, responsibility, and human concern of the Corporation. The three-hundred-year tradition of mutual respect and trust within the University has been thoroughly destroyed for us by the duplicity and contempt shown to us in the matter of the Afro-American Studies Program, and by the unnecessary, reprehensible violence initiated by the Administration on April 10th. Only when students have a strong and permanent voice in the highest policy-making apparatus of the University will we again feel the smallest particle of faith in the integrity of the University.

To this end wish to affirm our complete support for the program endorsed by Afro, and the striking teaching fellows. We herewith state and affirm our intention not to rest until these demands are met, and urge all students who wish to prevent a recurrence of the present crisis as well as the continuation of Harvard's present irresponsibility to join us until these goals are achieved. LEE A. DANIELS   CLYDE E. LINDSAY