ported to SFAC members that financial aid should be based solely on need and should not be used as a disciplinary tool. The SFAC voted 15-9 to endorse the report and sent it to the Admissions Office as a formal recommendation.
Sectionmen in Soc Rel 149 worked on a reply to Roger Brown's request that the course be dropped from the Soc Rel curriculum. The sectionmen said that Brown's move was part of "a long pattern of opposition to the course," and that shifting Soc Rel 149 to the Gen Ed program "would effectively kill it."
The Law School gave in to a national trend and decided to award its graduates the Doctor of Laws (JD) degree instead of the old Bachelor of Laws (LLB). The change made no difference except in the names themselves, but the school said that so many other schools were giving JD's that students with mere LLB's might be victims of discrimination because they held supposedly inferior degrees. The school made the change retroactive, so all the old LLB's could send in their diplomas and become JD's.
March 12: Responding to one of the black Cliffies' demands, Radcliffe announced the appointment of a black admission officer, Mrs. Doris J. Mitchell.
The Financial Aid Office asked the Faculty to give it more than twice as much money for student scholarships in 1969-770 as it had this year. Dean Peterson said that the increase--from $645,000 to $1.5 million--was necessary because of increased tuition and stepped-up recruiting of black students from poor urban areas.
March 13: Roger Brown said that his Soc Rel department might be able to work out some compromise arrangement with Soc Rel 148 and 149. Brown said the department might sponsor the courses for another year if the course leaders could set up qualification guidelines for course sectionmen and if the department could find the necessary money.
Soc Rel 153 held another troubled meeting at 2 Divinity Ave. Police trooped through the building to investigate a reported bomb threat, but found that the "bomb" was just an alarm clock in a box.
March 14: Army and Navy ROTC units at Harvard said that applications for the ROTC program had fallen to one-third of last year's total. But ROTC commanders said that anti-ROTC agitation was not the reason for the tip. They said that the real cause was the end of grad student's panic about the draft.
The noontime co-ed get-togethers in Lehman Hall seemed doomed when Dudley House Master Thomas Crooks said that interhouse dining at hall had to end. After House members complained of constant overcrowding, Crooks banned all grad students from Lehman during lunch and said that undergraduates could eat there only at their own expense.
Fund drives in Cambridge and New York raised the $20,000 bail needed to get King Collins and three members of his group out of the Charles Street jail.
March 16: The Soc Rel department listened to several proposals for regulating the structure of "unusual" courses, and then postponed any decision on Soc Rel 148 and 149 for at least a week.
March 17: Twenty people, including some Harvard students and some non-student members of King Collins' group, disrupted a lecture in Soc Rel 10. None of disrupters was arrested or ejected from the class.
Students in Soc Rel 148 and 149 collected 1200 signatures on a petition asking that the courses be given next year "without further interference." Several Faculty members in the Soc Rel department said that resolutions to limit the number of sectionmen in the courses would not necessarily lead to cancellation of 148 and 149.
March 18: The SFAC passed a resolution asking that one of its elected members--a student on probation for the Paine Hall sit-in--be permitted to serve and vote on the council.
King Collins led another class disruption, this one of a lecture by Karl W. Deutsch in Government 1b. Students in the class applauded Deutsch's efforts to continue his lecture in spite of the interruption.
