Word: acte
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...difficult to say what the reaction of the department will be, but if obstacles are put in the way of the course it will be primarily a political act by the University," he said...
THERE IS NO tenable parallel, as has been suggested, between the rights of students and of the military to form organizations on campus. Student groups are wholly within the control of people at Harvard, and these groups have the freedom to act and to represent themselves as their members see fit. But military organizations here are entirely controlled outside; they are simply not a part of Harvard, and have no right to represent themselves as though they were. If the personnel department of General Motors proposed a plan by which it would form a permanent recruiting organization within Harvard with...
There is a further problem which those who would keep ROTC on campus in a severely-reduced status have not faced. The ROTC Vitalization Act of 1964, which is the basis of the present ROTC program, specifically requires that ROTC units be granted full departmental status, that their courses be given "appropriate academic credit." The Pentagon is not empowered to create new types of ROTC programs, and if Harvard were to demand a radical restructuring of the ROTC units here, it would be told to put up with the present system (perhaps with very minor changes) or else...
Abolishing ROTC will not bring the war to an end, or the military establishment to its knees. But the arguments for abolishing ROTC are strong, and the Faculty should act on them. Above all, ending ROTC at Harvard will help to create the critical independent spirit which should be the only ideology of a university...
...amoral, wide-eyed girl, Genevieve Waite* is startling: she is one of the few new English-accented stars of the '60s who do not look or act like a secondhand Julie Christie. Not especially prepossessing or crafty, she is totally free of mannerisms, as natural as someone on a Chelsea sidewalk. Her fellow players seem equally and effectively plucked from real life. The best of them is Donald Sutherland, as a frail, talentless aristocrat, whose tentative worship of the Beautiful People is so well portrayed that it turns a bit part into a leading role...