ion. Von Stade said the Union would face the danger of overcrowding if unlimited numbers of Cliffies were alowed to troop in.

At the request of HSA agents, Dean Watson's office began investigating the on-campus distribution of Boston After Dark. The HSA representatives claimed that Watson had never officially cleared BAD for distribution, They also said that were not simply trying to remove BAD from competition with the HSA's own Student Calendar.

February 17: Because of a 25-year-old University policy against requesting draft deferments for students or employees, a conscientious objector doing research at the School of Public Health was denied permission to count his work here as alternate service. The CO's draft board said the research would be acceptable, but it asked for a letter from Harvard confirming the research project. The Harvard Personnel Office refused, saying that the University could not "ask for deferments."

The Corporation met for the first time since the Faculty's ROTC vote, but after the day-long meeting none of the Corporation members would say what--if any--action they had taken.

While Dean Watson continued his study of Boston After Dark the paper's publishers said they would temporarily hold off distribution. "If the papers are simply going to be thrown away, we can't leave them in the Houses," the BAD publisher said. Meanwhile, 1000 students signed a petition asking Watson to let BAD distribute.

Although Faculty votes prohibited him from seating students as voting members on his committee. Merle Fainsod said that he would work with four student consultants in his committee's study of Faculty organization. The four students--all past chairmen of student organizations--would be invited to meet with the committee when it discussed student Faculty relations, Fainsod said.

In response to the cancellation of the Design School's Urban Violence course, nearly one quarter of the tenured members of the Harvard Faculty signed a statement on academic freedom. The 113 Faculty members placed an ad in the CRIMSON asking the administration "to take measures appropriate to assure the inviolability of instruction and examinations in all duly approved courses."

February 18: President Pusey immediately responded to the Faculty's academic freedom statement. Pusey sent a letter to the signers of the statement saying that he would "do everything in my power... to see that the freedom of this University continued unabated, proof against attacks however well-intentioned or from whatever quarter."

The Corporation was slower to reveal its action on ROTC. Pentagon officials said that they too were waiting to hear what the Corporation had decided.

A group of first year Law students, unhappy with the school's academic arrangements and especially its grading system, began a movement to change the grade system. They circulated a petition asking for a number of reforms, including replacing letter grades with pass-fail grades for first-year students.

February 19: Dean Ford named the six members of the "search committee" in Afro-American Studies. Three of the committee's members were students selected by a black student committee. As stipulated in the Rosovsky report the committee's job was to find ten Faculty members for the Afro-American studies department by next Fall.

Dean Glimp announced progress on another of the Rosovsky recommendations. Glimp said that he was helping black students work out fund-raising arrangements for a planned black student center.

February 20: President Pusey sent a letter of Dean Ford announcing the Corporation's decision on ROTC. Pusey first referred to the Faculty's vote to remove academic credit and Corporation appointments from ROTC courses and instructors. He said that the Corporation "sympathizes with and commends" that effort to control the Faculty curriculum, adding, that the Corporation would try to "negotiate with the various military services in an effort to meet the Faculty's desires." But Pusey then said that the Corporation was pleased to see that the Faculty had not voted to expel ROTC. "It would be shortsighted in the extreme if academic institutions were now to withdraw their cooperation from the ROTC program," Pusey said. "Harvard University will therefore continue to cooperate in the ROTC program if a new arrangement can be concluded satisfactory" to both sides.

In Washington, national ROTC directors said they had received Pusey's letter and said that Harvard had told them "it is definitely eager for us to remain."

The acting dean of the Design School circulated a private memorandum saying that the instructor of an Urban Violence course had made a mistake in circulating a course outline that had not been approved by the school.