Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legislation the Faculty adopted allows the Dean of the College to demand that an organization defend its policies before students" if upon other expression of student opinion (than the petition) he finds substantial reason for requiring public discussion." In practice, Dean Glimp, who backs completely open recruitment, would never exercise this option. Still it seems a mistake to give any Dean such a free rein on action that could censor organizations from the campus...
Geer, who in his own experience, and those of his friends, has seen the great results meditation can have, was simply trying to defend a process that he regards as valuable. But he has the great flaw of all those connected with Maharishi's techings. He refuses to admit that any aspect of the movement, or any decision of the people in it, can be improved...
...mechanism finally proposed in the Council's resolution is designed to prevent hasty or unconsidered action. Under its provisions, a petition to withhold the facilities of the OGCP from an organization wishing to interview there can be initiated only after the organization has been given an opportunity to defend its policies, and the petition must then receive about 1200 signatures of undergraduates who feel that stronger action needs to be taken. It must further be approved by a majority of those voting at a meeting of the SFAC, after an open hearing in which the merits of the petition have...
...fact, the "draft" was visible principally to the weather eye of its chief beholder and beneficiary. Though Rocky tried gamely to defend his withdrawal in March as correct at the time, there seemed little doubt that it had been a blunder compounded by the subsequent developments he mentioned, most notably Lyndon Johnson's abdication and Nixon's continued strength in the polls (the latest Gallup showed him beating all three Democrats). If Rockefeller continued his coyness, his political scouts reported, Nixon probably would be unbeatable...
...signatures require representatives of a recruiting organization to discuss organization policy in an open forum before being allowed to recruit here. Compulsory debate by petition again appears an attempt to judge for others; many organizations, it is possible, may feel they lack the qualified manpower or the time to defend themselves in public debate. They should still be allowed to recruit like other organizations...