Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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comment his proposed set of rules, based in large part on the Council proposals of late last spring. The Council balked and sent back a list of some dozen recommended changes, which in every case would have made the rules more liberal. Watson received these proposals in late December; at the end of January he issued a little printed booklet, Rules for Undergraduate Organizations. Neither he nor the Faculty Commlttee on Undergraduate Activities had accepted any of the Council,s pro- posed changes, nor had he thought it would be fruitful to carry the discussions much further at this time. The undergraduate groups now had their rules. The newly-elected Council debated the subject and decided to drop the objections to all but two or three of the rules. Then the case was closed. It was just as well, though the Deans, Oche action had been unnecessarily abrupt; the struggle between liberal and restrictive principles, in the places where it had not been resolved, had reached a stalemate. Radcliffe ordered one of the Crimsorfs Annex correspond- ents, Deborah Labenow ,51, to quit the paper The other clash was much brisket.

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and soon afterwards Chief Randall of the Univer- sity Police. 50, waving a fond goodhy t0 Whit- man, and staying just long enough to see another false alarm sent in from Barnard, the crowd dis- persed. Meanwhile several hundred other men rioted on the front steps of the Lampoon building, and Leverett House greeted the blackout with a iimillenium bancii that played hymns as Leverett men shouted that the world was coming to an end. The lights went back on about 7230 pm. and things soon returned to normal. They remained normal until Friday when an even bigger riot took place in the Square. Esti- mates of the number of rioters ran as high as 3500. Paddy wagons shuttled back and forth with full loads, as Yale and Harvard joined forces to battle the police. But the cops, and Dean Bender, had the last word. Over a dozen men spent the night in jail, and a week later Bender fired two men and put over twenty on probation for their shares in the two riots. The police treatment seemed more in keeping with the severity of crime than the Dealfs, but there was no denying that Bendeijs action had put an end to the rioting season for some time. As Christmas drew near two undergraduate bodies crossed swords with oihcialdom. The first case was a short second run of the great rules con- troversy which had churned April and May of 1950 into a froth. But where the spring fight had been between the undergraduate organizations for whom the rules were being made and the Council which was trying to make them, the winter con- troversy Was between the Deans7 OHice and the Council, now the champion of more liberal rules. In December Dean Watson sent to the Council for

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CliHedwellers were big hit in Smoker campaign. and the Radcliffe Press Board for writing two stories Wlot in the best interests of Radcliffe? One story had been a rumor that President Jordan had proposed a Great Issues course Hike the one at Dartmoutht for Radcliffe. Jordan was ill and could not be reached for comment, but the Crim- son ran the story anyway, and it later turned out to have been Wrong. The other story was sent into the Boston Herald without prior permission of the Publicity OfIice. The issue between the Radcliffe Administration and the Crimson was this: to whom was the reporter responsible? The Crime said uonly t0 the newspaper she servesn; Radcliffe said g111m of all to her college whose S$?.- Sally Randts performance at the Smoker was totally unbareable.