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Graduate Schools Vote to Strike; Faculties Resolve Exam Policies

The meeting also voted to exert its "influence in education and related areas toward the end of intolerable conditions at home and abroad that have led us to terminate our normal activities as both a matter of conscience and necessity."

At Hunt Hall yesterday afternoon, the faculty and students of the Graduate School of Design voted support for the demands endorsed by Monday's mass meeting. They adopted Dean May's proposal that exams and other academic work may be deferred until autumn.

The Design School gathering also decided to protest their administration's failure to rehire Chester W. Hartman as assistant professor of city planning, allegedly for political reasons. They will picket the 13th Annual Urban Design Conference which begins today at Memorial Hall.

Public Health

At a meeting on their Boston campus 132 students and faculty at the School of Public Health voted to strike Friday in sympathy with the demands approved at Monday's mass meeting. They also created a committee to ask Richard H. Daggy, acting dean of the school, to call a mass meeting and issue a statement on the Strike.

The students of the Divinity School, also endorsing Monday's demands, declared a strike and asked yesterday that the faculty of the Divinity School make final papers and exams optional for those students "participating in political activity and desiring pass-fail course credit." The students also requested the abolition of the IV-D deferment.

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Yesterday evening, the Divinity School faculty approved the request for optional exams and pass-fail credit. They also voted to hold a two-week recess this autumn prior to the November elections to allow students to work for anti-war candidates.

About 100 teaching fellows met this afternoon in Emerson 105 and voted to support the strike demands, by refusing to grade exams or term papers.

The teaching fellows also discussed ways of implementing the strike throughout the community as well as on a departmental level, and established a steering committee.

At the Faculty meeting an hour later, Sam Bowles, assistant professor of Economics, read the teaching fellow's statement, and then yielded the floor to Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics.

MacEwan rephrased the statement to apply to the entire Faculty, but in the ensuing vote, his resolution received only 11 votes.

Bowles said last night about the miniscule support of the resolution. "This is a very strong indictment of the degree to which the Faculty is out of touch with the students."

At a meeting in Sanders Theatre this morning, about 100 students and faculty of the GSAS met to discuss ways of implementing the strike. The meeting reached a climax when a motion was introduced to approve the strike and to expel from the meeting all those who did not support the strike.

At this point, a large number of people left the meeting, and it broke up soon after without a formal vote on the strike.

Medical Area

A mass meeting of employees and students in Harvard affiliated hospitals and the Harvard medical area last night adopted the four strike demands and approved a strike.

The meeting modified the demands to include a condemnation of "the murder of students by national guardsmen at Kent State" and the "clear-cut Presidential policy of intimidation and prevention of expression."

The meeting also joined first year medical students in calling on President Pusey to "shut down the University for the remainder of the week" and to "issue a statement unequivocably condemning Nixon's action in Cambodia and Southeast Asia."

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