Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michigan and engaged, I am told, on development of highly secret materiel for use in Vietnam. I urged not alone the futility but the adverse public effects of such action; I said that a better remedy lay against the Faculty members who ran this enterprise. Students might organize to avoid their classes, i.e., peacefully to boycott them. Last Monday evening at the meeting in the Hilles Library arranged by President bunting to discuss legitimate forms of protest I repeated (along with others) this suggestion and added that this particular one would not be without effect on those who sponsored such...
...elsewhere have been told how they may not react to university involvement in military activities of which they disapprove. With other Faculty members I assume that this carries an obligation to say how they may react. I suggested (initially in Michigan and later here) that they organize to avoid employment in corporations of whose products they disapprove and classes of professors whose secret contracts they deplore. (I also suggested that this last was inapplicable under Harvard policy and that there be combined effort to find other forms of legitimate and effective protest.) I assume that Professor Smithies would suppress...
...most fortunate consequence of the recent controversy is that almost everyone seems to understand that the issues raised by it are vexing ones, and cannot be resolved by glib critical formulae or reassertions of established practices. It is for this reason that I tried to avoid the concept of the university's complicity in the war. If indeed I did not succeed, it shows how easy it is to fall into rhetorical grooves even when one does not want to. But while the demonstration was conceived of and acted out as a protest against...
...some of the demonstrators sat-in not so much out of frustration at their inability to help end the war, but out of an honest conviction that the University should avoid connections with firms and government agencies linked to the U.S. war effort. These students--and a few Faculty members--are morally outraged by what some term "University complicity with genocide...
...finance this research, the group sought a grant from a "neutral" source, to avoid charges that the study was "industry-oriented" or "government-oriented." Approaching the Ford Foundation for a grant, they were given $260,000. A name--The Weapons Acquisition Research Project--and a project head--Paul W. Cherington '40, James J. Hill Professor of Transportation, completed the preparations...