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...Dow Chemical Co. produces some 800 items from measles vaccine to brake fluid. It also produces the napalm used in Viet Nam-a fact that has set off near riots on several college campuses as 'antiwar demonstrators tried to prevent Dow job recruiters from interviewing students. But when weary company men who faced the "Dow Shalt Not Kill" signs returned from hiring trips to headquarters in Midland, Mich., they were in for a surprise. Comparing notes last week, they found that more students across the land expressed interest in working for Dow than in any previous year...
Between Sept. 1 and March 1, altogether 9,595 students were interviewed on campuses, 900 more than the year before. College placement officers suggest that publicity generated by demonstrations may have actually boosted interest in the company. Many students obviously went to see the Dow representatives simply to defy the demonstrators with whom they disagreed, or to support Dow's right to make its pitch like any other corporation. "Perhaps the notoriety we acquired helped in some cases," says Dow's chief recruiter Dr. Ramon F. Rolf. But he still worries about missing "the real bright, sensitive individual...
...great shock to me. My background first. I am a white haired fifty year old establishment lady who has fought tooth and nail for what the young people were telling us. I even gave up buying saran wrap in the Walter Mitty hope of converting production of napalm at Dow Chemical to better things. I rode in a jeep to Freedom Square in October and spent two nights on a bus with little to eat and almost two days standing around and walking with little to eat and not much chance of going to the toilet, which is perhaps crude...
After six meetings, the SFAC has made a total of two recommendations to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. One of them--a request to seat one of its own members who was on Dow probation--was approved. The other--a request to postpone Dow's second visit to Harvard--was rejected...
...SFAC was doomed at birth. Like many other student groups (HUC, for example), its precise role in the policy-making apparatus of the University was unclear. Most members did not know until after the Faculty had voted down the Dow resolution that the SFAC would have to channel its proposals through the Faculty before they would reach the Administration and be enacted. Two months later, the SFAC's status remains unclear: Can a television proposal go straight to the Council of Deans? Does a resolution asking SFAC members to take polls of their constituents require Faculty approval? No one really...