TV Peace

THE great debate on the University's television policy seems to have ended happily for both sides. In fact, there was never much reason for a fight, Dean Ford said Wednesday, as he announced that the Administration had no substantial quarrel with the open-TV resolution approved 25-1 last month by the Student-Faculty Advisory council.

The criterion of "balance," which the Council of Deans feared was open to misunderstanding and its critics feared was open to misuse, is gone. Now educational stations will be able to televise any Harvard program with educational content, no matter how lopsided it is politically. The only qualification the Council of Deans insists upon is that the participants have the right to veto TV coverage. New or not, this is the policy the University ought to be following on televising campus events, and it is a policy worth stating affirmatively as the Administration now has.