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...Dow issue caught the Faculty by surprise and the long, spontaneous debate which followed was exceptional--as was the close 88-62 vote by which the Faculty decided not to ask Dow for a postponement. The surprise was unavoidable; President Pusey received SFAC's recommendation early last week and decided to bring it to the Faculty after dockets for the meeting had been printed and mailed. More Faculty members would have come if they knew Dow was going on the agenda, but most of the additional votes would probably have been against postponement. The group that did vote was closely...
...home," Dean Ford said as he stepped into his office, "others, they stand out there in the corridors talking about what has happened." Tuesday's Faculty meeting belonged to the latter sort. The Faculty had unexpectedly spent almost half its meeting debating whether the campus visit of the Dow Chemical Company next week should be postponed. That was excitement enough, but in addition the meeting produced a new, and much clearer definition of the role the Student Faculty Advisory Council is likely to have in University decision-making...
...case, the Faculty vote cemented Dow's return to Harvard next Friday. If there ever was a chance that Dow recruiters would be kept away by private phone calls from administrators, it is gone now. The visit has been scheduled since last March, and both President Pusey and Dean Ford say that fact is one good reason for not trying to get it cancelled, even on pragmatic grounds. If Dow had set up the appointment after the October demonstration, there might have been substantial Faculty feeling that the University was precipitating a confrontation...
Pusey's decision to bring the Dow question to the Faculty sets a significant precedent for the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. The SFAC resolution addressed to him and the Corporation, went to the wrong place, Pusey told the Faculty Tuesday. Asking Dow to stay off campus was not properly Corporation business. Pusey explained. Since SFAC was created by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences all its resolutions should pass through that Faculty...
...every SFAC resolution will have to be sent to a full Faculty meeting for approval, Pusey said Wednesday. For instance the Dow resolution could have been directed to the standing Faculty Committee which supervises the Office of Graduate and Career Plans...