Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-war movement based primarily on concern about the domestic effects of the war or on the loss of American lives in Vietnam is easily co-opted and side-tracked. For such a movement, a withdrawal of half our troops would be half as good as withdrawing all of them. Every minor concession becomes a victory, and every such "victory" lessens the strength and cohesion of the movement. This is not an abstract theoretical observation, but something we have all learned from very bitter experience. We must not go down that road again...
...reply, Pusey stressed the University's duty to "protect the rights of its minorities." He added that while the war and the Moratorium "are quite properly subjects of individual or group concern and action," the University's "long-term health" depends on avoiding political stands...
...Vietnam. For a long time the only questions have been how to conclude it or, failing that, how to extricate ourselves from it. About these matters opinions differ and feelings run high. Though the war and the tactics for settling it are quite properly subjects of individual or group concern and action, they are not, in my view, matters on which the University as a corporate body should take a policy position...
That the University should not express views on political issues-a point which has been much argued over the years-is the principle of chief concern to me. I feel strongly that the long range health of this and other universities depends upon observing it. A second. no less-important point is that the right of dissent does not include the right to force assent. A university must be as concerned to protect the rights of its minorities as to respect the wishes of its majorities. A growing carelessness in regard to this basic principle of civilized democratic life seems...
Pusey explained that the Corporation made that statement "in reply to a letter-it was a response to a direct question on a matter of deep concern to be University...