Phillips Brooks House announced that it was cutting back the enrollment in its volunteer programs to 60 per cent of the previous year's total. PBH officers said that the cutback was not because of lack of enthusiasm, but rather because residents of Cambridge had taken over guidance of several of the programs.
October 31: After considering petitions from graduates and undergraduates who asked for a University-wide open meeting with Dow recruiters, the Chemistry department faculty voted to limit the Dow meeting to graduate students in the department. The department also formally asked Dow to hold off its scheduled November 6 recruiting visit until Harvard could work out the details of the meeting.
President Johnson ordered all bombing of North Vietnam halted. He said that the bomb cessation could lead to "speedy resolution of the negotiations in Paris."
November
November 1: The Coop's stockholders, saying they were "distressed" by charges of swollen membership lists and election irregularities, voted to form a special committee that would study the whole system of electing Coop Directors.
The Medical School's Committee on Disadvantaged Students released an ambitious report for attracting and keeping black and "disadvantaged minority" students at the school. The report asked the school to create 15 new scholarships of $5,000 each and to increase the size of a Med School class from 160 to 185.
November 2: Harvard won its sixth football game, beating Penn 28-6 at Soldiers' Field.
In his first public address since visiting American deserters in Sweden, Harvey G. Cox, professor of Divinity, spoke at the M.I.T. sanctuary and claimed that regiments of American soldiers were being sent handcuffed and under guard to Vietnam.
Sharp-eyed liquor agents from the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Bureau raided the Hasty Pudding Club after the football game and took the names of all under-age people drinking at the bar.
November 4: The Radcliffe College Council, after weighing student opinion, decided to go ahead with construction of the underground parking lot. The Council--Radcliffe's version of the Harvard Corporation--said that digging would start in June.
November 5: While most Harvard students watched late at night, California toppled into Richard Nixon's column and gave him the electoral college majority. Some students didn't just watch. Nearly a hundred members of Harvard SDS joined a march on the Boston Common, at which six people were eventually arrested for assault and battery on police officers.
November 6: The Committee on Educational Policy took up the simmering ROTC debate. Dean Ford said that the CEP did not consider the Harvard Undergraduate Council's case against ROTC to be "a fully developed argument," but the CEP agreed to invite students from the HUC and the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee to its next meeting.
The CEP also on a proposed "radical" course in economics, approving plans for "The American Economy: Conflict and Power." Leaders of the new course -- most of whom said they had a radical perspective on economics" -- said the course would concentrate on problems of power relations and income distribution in the American economy.
The University Planning Office announced that it was reviving old plans to build Faculty housing on the Shady Hill site near the Divinity School. In 1955 Harvard had cancelled building plans on the three-and-a-half-acre area in face of stiff neighborhood opposition. University planners said that they might start talks with neighborhood representatives within a few months to iron out possible objections.
November 7: A traditional "heckling debate" in Harvard's public speaking course led to a potentially explosive situation. One student came to the debate dressed as a Klansman and argued in favor of the proposition that "Black Power is ruining America." Although the debate directors and the student himself said that their intent was harmless, black students objected immediately. A statement from a black freshman and the president of Afro said that the debate topic was comparable to "having a debate on the extermination of Jews--and bringing in one participant dressed as a Nazi."
