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...only other time business from SFAC has reached the Faculty was last February, when President Pusey reported that he could not respond to a SFAC request that Dow recruiters be temporarily kept off campus. The Faculty narrowly voted down the resolution and some members complained that the confusion in having to deal with the question suddenly destroyed the resolution's chances...
...most students do not think of businessmen as money-hungry capitalists bent on crushing the proletariat. American industry has often served as a convenient scapegoat for the frustrations of campus radicals. But we must not extrapolate from cliches to general feelings of hostility. While radical slogans such as "Dow kills babies," "Boycott Stop and Shop," and "Chase Manhattan advocates white racism" mobilize middle-class sentiment against the Vietnam war, exploitation of the grape workers, and South African apartheid, they are but manifestations of a highly active and vocal minority. The radical cause on campus seeks easy targets, and they...
...some employers whose activities are so repugnant that they offend the moral sense of a substantial portion of the University, and that to allow them in might in effect be seen as University condonement of what they do. The most obvious examples of such organizations would be Dow Chemical Corporation and the Central Intelligence Agency...
...policy. Just what percentage of students, Faculty, administrators, or even Student-Faculty Council members is sufficient to decree any organization so offensive to individual moral sense that it cannot enjoy the convenience Harvard will continue to offer other organizations? Will it come down, perhaps, to a case in which Dow is indeed decreed morally acceptable to Harvard in a narrow 343-342 vote? Or will the CIA lose out one year, only to make a strong electoral comeback with the entrance of a more conservative freshman class a year later...
...confidence, like SDS. That's why they don't get involved in the dirty work of daily radicalism as represented by SDS's current 'Ten Days in April" organizing campaign. And because the dramatic preconditions of October were absent last February, the liberal activists weren't even there when Dow came back...