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...Mittys of the left," we who oppose napalm recruitment, who use terms like "genocide" too loosely (or is it too strictly?), who would deny "free speech" to men who authorize the unashamed bombing of civilians. Surely, it is his best new cliche since that memorable press conference after the Dow demonstration, when he invoked the sanctity of our "decent democratic society." One wonders who is the real Walter Mitty...
...assumption, which they invariably call their 'analysis,' that Western society, and especially American society, is rotten through and through." These "Walter Mittys of the left," declared Pusey, "...fancy themselves rising to positions of command atop the debris as the structures of society come crashing down." He blamed the Dow sit-in at Harvard last October on "some few" students who "managed not only to move the demonstration inside the building, but also to maintain there something very like a state of siege for more than six hours..." Pusey's "analysis" does justice to neither his students nor the facts...
About three hundred students sat-in during the Dow demonstration; another 200 or so turned in their Bursar's cards to support them; 600 attended a mass meeting to demand leniency from the Faculty. To charge that any or all of these students were manipulated by "some few" is to denigrate their intelligence and insult their integrity...
...really is the treatment of Dow justified? First, Dow represents the end result of policy and not the source. If it was not Dow it would be somebody else. That is not being fatalistic ... just prognatic...
...other issue growing out of the Dow incident was that you wished Harvard to close its doors to Army, Navy, and CIA recruiters. That is not the function of Harvard. Its mission is to present to you the choices available or to give to you enough information (total in scope) out of the cultural context of mankind so as to make enlightened action possible. Then it is up to you to choose your course of action toward recruiters...