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...death of David R. Gordon '70 of Bethesda, Md., and Adams House was termed a suicide by Dr. David C. Dow, the medical examiner for Middlesex County...
...true that Dow is not the only company involved in the war but Dow has become a symbol. It was equally arbitrary to make of the Bastille the symbol of absolutism (there were worse places and institutions) and it was equally arbitrary for public opinion to single out nuclear weapons as a target of moral outrage when ordinary bombs had killed many more people in Dresden than the atomic bomb killed at Hiroshima. The choice of a symbol happens to be a fact, and I am not even sure that we should deplore...
...Council to recommend the suspension of all recruitment at Harvard until it has reached an agreement on the subject would have constituted overkill. Not to have asked for a postponement of Dow's visit and to have, so to speak, left unattended the risk of a new crisis would have prejudged the issue even more; for if the crisis occurs, the "free and unprejudiced discussion of the full range of issues now before the Council" that Professor Gill, along with the Council's members, calls for will become quite impossible. Stanley Hoffmann Professor of Government
...transmitting messages to the students community, for sending up trial balloons on various proposals, and, generally for keeping in touch with student opinion. Then, with the hunger strike last spring over non-Radcliffe housing rules, with the dispute over the fourth House last semester, and finally, with the Dow incident, even those close to Mrs. Bunting had to admit that she and the administration were out of touch, despite...
...Radcliffe has already moved far ahead of Harvard. Students have an important voice both within the Houses and on the College-wide Judicial Board, which seats four students and five administration officials. But just as a majority of the students was unhappy with the Board's decisions on the Dow demonstration (seven girls were put on probation), there is no guarantee that the majority of the students will be satisfied with the decisions under the RUS constitution. First, one or two students on each committee are not going to be able to outvote the trustees. Second (and this is probably...