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...Class of '68 has also harassed military recruiters and Dow Chemical interviewers, picketed induction centers, held massive?and sometimes unruly?rallies to protest the war. It has eyed its own campuses critically and loudly cried out for a more relevant education. It has demonstrated in support of fired professors and striking janitors, thrown itself in front of campus bulldozers, demanded everything from black-culture courses to total freedom from parietal rules...
...resolution instructs the Office of Graduate and Career Plans to make its facilities open to "the broadest possible range of organizations offering information relevant to the future plans and careers of Harvard and Radcliffe students." The political implications are clear--the American Friends gets equal time and space with Dow...
Edwin E. Moise, James B. Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics, spoke in favor of the SFAC proposal. He said that the scheme was "an ingenious way of saying to students that we take the issue and them seriously." To have barred Dow would have been untenably selective, Moise argued, but he said that by voting down the resolution the Faculty "would be saying that who comes on campus is none of our business...
Handlin said last night that in his opinion the enforceability of the public discussions clause will never come to a test. "Dow certainly wouldn't turn down the free publicity of a public platform," he said, "and I don't think any 500 students will care enough to force a meeting...
...resolution, in a sense, is too thorough. The urgency of averting another Dow demonstration has diminished considerably since the Council was formed. Recruitment is no longer the overriding concern of everyone at Harvard. If the Faculty votes down the SFAC resolution, the Council will probably continue. Very few members would even consider resigning. Most SFAC members hope that the organization next year will consider policy areas such as discipline, financing, course content, relations with the community. The work of the four SFAC subcommittees--practically non-existent during the recruitment debates--could well be continued and enlarged...