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...strong and open draft union here could be one of the most effective ways to oppose the war. Already a Berkeley-based group called Campus Draft Opposition has moved to set up a nationwide draft union among students--calling for "we won't go" pledges and mock Vietnam Commencements to dramatize resistance
...they get up and go home," Dean Ford said as he stepped into his office, "others, they stand out there in the corridors talking about what has happened." Tuesday's Faculty meeting belonged to the latter sort. The Faculty had unexpectedly spent almost half its meeting debating whether the campus visit of the Dow Chemical Company next week should be postponed. That was excitement enough, but in addition the meeting produced a new, and much clearer definition of the role the Student Faculty Advisory Council is likely to have in University decision-making...
Pusey's decision to bring the Dow question to the Faculty sets a significant precedent for the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. The SFAC resolution addressed to him and the Corporation, went to the wrong place, Pusey told the Faculty Tuesday. Asking Dow to stay off campus was not properly Corporation business. Pusey explained. Since SFAC was created by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences all its resolutions should pass through that Faculty...
...legislature's Joint Committee on Education Tuesday foolishly voted 7-5 for a measure that will almost certainly restrict academic freedom at the University of Massachusetts. Responding to charges that instructors at the Boston campus had encouraged students to participate in last October's Arlington Street Church rally against the war, the Committee supported a plan to set up an investigative commission...
Certainly UMass is not the only campus where faculty members have supported or even encouraged civil disobedience. The singling out of instructors at this campus for intimidation, justified by the Committee on grounds that UMass is a public institution, forbids them freedoms allowed their colleagues at private campuses. Such discrimination can only discourage teachers considering UMass and ultimately will hurt the calibre of its faculty. Those students who cannot afford to attend private universities are being dealt educations inferior to those students...