Word: againstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The amended and approved motion says that the Faculty "recognizes that October 15th is a day of protest against the war and, while not committing any individual member, reaffirms its members' right to suspend classes on that day."
the Faculty should not spoil its nearly-unanimous feeling about the war by fighting over procedural questions. E. Bright Wilson, Theodore William Richards professor of Chemistry, said that the only way to get an overwhelming vote in favor of the Moratorium was to accept Doeringer's amendment. And Lipset argued...
a Faculty vote would coerce the minority of the Faculty that disagreed. Anhony G. Octtinger, professor of Ling-uistics and Gordon McKay professor of Applied Mathematics said that "there is a moral issue I must weigh against the moral issue of the war. I can not live with coercion of...
a vote against the Vietnam war would not drag the Faculty into other political discussions. "Would this set a precedent?" Mendelsohn asked in introducing his resolution. "Perhaps. If there were another war with similar effects, members of the Faculty might again rise to oppose it.";
a vote expressing the majority opinion of the Faculty would have no binding effect on those who disagreed. After several Faculty members emphasized that the resolutions would have no coercive effect on the dissenting minority, Hoffmann said that a refusal to vote would also be coercion against those who felt...