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...editorial "Friday Night" in the issue of March 29 is one of the most greasy arguments I have seen put forth in your newspaper. While you have managed to acknowledge that the disruption was improper, it is evident that the main effort of the essay was to deflect attention from the immediate issues of free speech and violent repression, issues seen in the actual experience we have to undergo here in Cambridge, to unproved assertions regarding the war. What I take to be an oblique excuse of the disruption Friday,"...so must some uses of speech be prevented...
Which is of course to deflect the major thrust of the argument. The principle at stake is one of equal education-and if we've, theoretically at least, accepted that principle when applied to this country's minority groups it's about time it's extended to the female majority. Harvard, with its 10,000-man traditions, can offer no apology for its male-only past, but by implementing an equal admissions policy for the Class of '76, at least it doesn't commit itself to reenacting the sins of its fathers...
...least express our feelings, in the hope that this will deflect the course of this outrageous action...
...proposal that the administration hire minority group workers amounting to 20 per cent of the work force and add them to the site was defeated by the faculty. A spokesman for Afro had termed the solution a "cop-out" that would deflect attention from the discriminatory hiring practices of the construction industry...
...week's activity seem likely to deflect the impending campus protests. Leaders of a combined peace movement claimed spreading support for their plans to stage a nationwide "Moratorium Day" on campuses Oct. 15 and follow it with a two-day demonstration in November, including a march on Washington of 45,000 people, each bearing the name of a war fatality. The organizers say that 400 colleges will participate in the Moratorium Day, with students boycotting classes to hold mass teach-ins, distribute antiwar leaflets in neighborhoods, turn in their draft cards. One peace leader, Dr. Benjamin Spock, dismissed...