A Radcliffe House Committee came up with a proposal to make travelling between Harvard and the Cliffe more enjoyable. Claiming that the university could arrange a bus circuit up and down Mass Ave and Garden Street if there was enough student interest, the committee circulated questionnaires to see how many cold undergraduates would pay to ride the bus.
November 8: To add momentary beauty to an Ed School lot eventually destined to be filled by a $6 million library, an Ed School student built a wooden Mongol structure called a "yurt." He taught classes in crates inside and said he had lived in yurts before.
November 10: The Medical School revealed plans for a new program of pre-paid community health care. Med School planners said they hoped the plan would lead a national shift away from antiquated systems of dispensing medical care. The Harvard Community Health plan would set up a health center in nearby Roxbury and would emphasize preventative medicine as a way of keeping its patients out of the hospital.
The football team won another, this one a 9-7 squeaker over Princeton.
November 12: The faculty unanimously accepted the Dunlop Report's section on re-arranging Faculty approved--calling for elimination of the "Instructor" post and general pay raises--had earlier been endorsed by the CEP.
The Government department felt a growing financial pinch as student enrollments increased nearly twice as fast as departmental funds. But the department's chairman, Samuel P. Huntington, denied allegations that the department was short on tutors and teaching fellows.
November 14: The roof fell in Yale said that it would admit women starting in 1970 and that the female Bulldogs might live in the same dorms as the men.
Harvard's research funds, which had already suffered from several Federal cutbacks, faced the prospect of another $1 million cut from the National Science Foundation. The Faculty set up a special committee to decide how to divide the loss among Harvard's many research projects.
Nearly thirty Harvard students went to jail for joining protests in Boston. Twenty members of SDS who marched with welfare mothers to the State House were put in jail on several charges of trespassing and obstructing government business. Another nine students who had protested an MBTA fare increase were arrested for trespassing and disruption, but were soon released.
November 17: The Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee released a report recommending that ROTC lose its academic privileges. The report stressed that ROTC did not belong in the Harvard curriculum because the ROTC courses--unlike any others in the College--were under outside control and did not constitute "work towards a liberal degree."
Winthrop House said that its annual spring Arts Festival would be run in association with Afro and would feature black artists. Tentative guest artists included James Baldwin, Leroi Jones, Marian Anderson, and others.
Meanwhile, black athletes criticized Harvard's sports policies on a WHRB panel. Football player John Tyson said he quit the team because he feld like a "gladiator in front of white alumni," while members of other teams said that Harvard coaches couldn't make full use of "the black athlete's style of playing."
November 18: SDS met late into the night and decided to confront the University over the ROTC issue. Along with plans for a demonstration outside Dean Ford's office SDS members mulled over suggestions that they force their way into the next Faculty meeting to make it consider their ROTC arguments.
The Harvard Undergraduate Council, reacting against a growing number of student-Faculty committees set up in the last few months, passed a strongly-worked resolution urging students to boycott the committees unless they had concrete guarantees of "power in the decisions."
November 19: The SFAC held its first vote on ROTC resolutions. By a 16-9 vote, the SFAC killed a resolution nearly identical to the SDS demand that ROTC be immediately removed from campus. Two other ROTC resolutions were postponed until the next meeting.
