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...Harris reports that 50% of the public believe that the decision was a correct one, while 43% say that they have "serious doubts." He also finds that 54% of the people think that it was not "proper and constitutional for the President to order troops into Cambodia without the consent of Congress." Forty-nine percent regard the move as having "divided" Americans more than before: 43% disagree. On one point, feelings were not ambiguous: even after the Kent State killings, only 27% express "sympathy" with student protests against the Cambodia action; 52% "condemn" such demonstrations. While 53% oppose the notion...
...Kilbridge is delaying the formation of any committee until everyone leaves Cambridge in June. After requesting a formal state-ment from HGSDA Council President Harry Cobb before making an appointment, he insisted on faculty approval. Kilbridge has also expressed doubts about establishing a fact-finding committee without the express consent of the University President and the Corporation...
Some Faculty members understand this, but they are a tiny minority. Charles G. Gross, lecturer on Psychology. proposed at Tuesday's meeting that no portion of the CRR resolution be effective until ratified by a student referendum. "A law to be effective must depend on the consent of the governed," Gross told the Faculty. "It shocks and dismays me that the Faculty seems unaware that these mechanisms are totally unacceptable to the majority of students-not just to the far left...
...sure, both actions are symbolic. A decision made by the President, without the advice, consent, of even knowledge of Cabinet or Congress, will not be affected by even the most ardent lobbying. The Harvard Corporation is unlikely to take the requested act of civil disobedience of withholding tax dollars from the government. Yet symbols do matter, in so for as they convey the desperation, and the sense of political impotence, felt by the faculty of the Graduate School of Education...
...situation with the University's blue collar and service employees is wholly different. These workers-Buildings and Grounds employees, engineers, food services personnel-are strictly unionized, and all have no-strike clauses in their union contracts. To strike without the union's consent would mean losing their jobs...