Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since your reporter did not attempt to check on the facts with me, I am not surprised that he made many mistakes in so few lines. Please help us to avoid confusions in the operations of the course, Natural Sciences 2, on Tuesday, March 4, by printing the following corrections of the erroneous parts of your story...
...means of such a dynamic of co-optation that we have the Fainsod Committee on Faculty Decision-Making. The Committee's attenuated birth illustrates the consistency of the Harvard Administration's attempt to avoid radical issues...
...that point, SDS intervened with a symbolic presence in a last attempt to make the ROTC debate "honest." Amid such subtleties, they attempted to refocus debate on the political aspects of ROTC and its sponsor, the U.S. military. These are the aspects of ROTC which make it of life-and-death importance to millions of people outside of the United States. These are the aspects which SDS sought to raise in its initial protests against ROTC...
...FAINSOD Committee is an attempt to deal with the concept of student power in a procedural rather than a political context. "Student power" and "student power for what?" have been separated in a calculated manner. The former's isolation forfeits its radical potential. Student power to eliminate ROTC is valid. Student power to administrate ROTC is democratic direction of coercive force. The recent action of the Corporation proves that until the basic structure of Harvard is altered, students power can never be anything more than the latter. The Corporation simply will not allow ROTC to leave. There...
Glimp said this is not a change in policy, but "an attempt to create a uniform understanding of the situation throughout the Houses and produce equity for all students...