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...contemporaries that they were reliving as farce what the eighteenth century had experienced as national tragedy, he also told them that the way beyond both tragedy and farce was to make a revolution. At Harvard we also seem to be caught between pointless farce and tragic hope. After McNamara, Dow, and Paine Hall, many radicals hope to make a revolution. The rest of the University does not agree; hence, the Harvard community is in a crisis...
When one of our leaders in SDS said (during the Dow demonstration) that "we are going to bring this university to an end, as you know it," liberals frequently ignored the qualifying phrase "as you know it." Our position will seem purely destructive, only if you feel that what Dean Ford calls the present "fundamental distribution of roles and responsibilities in the University" is sacrosanct. For it is true that if we had our way that distribution of roles and responsibilities (not to mention power) would be destroyed. We do desire (at least) a "fundamental alteration" -- as Ford puts...
Whether or not Dean Ford holds these views without reservation, most radicals think he does. It is therefore hardly surprising that we on the left should begin to view all parliamentary procedures and all respect for the civil rights of Dow recruiters and under-graduate drill teams as hypocritical to begin with, and in the end reactionary. For in fact you have told me precious little if you tell me you are for the right to recruit and the right to "prepare for the military" and also against the Vietnamese...
...personal view is that students who willingly and knowingly violated the statutes of the University in Paine Hall should be suspended. My main reason is not that they have violated the understandings that emerged from the Dow incident of last year, nor even that they have disobeyed the explicit instructions of the Deans given both at the time and well in advance, but that they have attacked the concept of reasoned discussion on which this University is founded and for which it exists. In this instance, their offense against the laws of the University is even more deeply an offense...
...Board includes admonishment, a notation on the record card; probation, which carries with it certain restrictions on a student's extracurricular life; and Required to Withdraw, a temporary severance from the College which might, at this time, mean revocation of a student's 2-S deferement. After tre Dow demonstration last year, the Administrative Board issued a combination of admonishment and probation