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...last Wednesday that imprisoned a Dow Chemical Corp. recruiter in a Malinckrodt conference room for seven hours was, according to President Pusey, a clear violation of the "freedom of expression or movement of others." That is the main reason the Faculty voted Tuesday to accept the recommendations of the Administrative Board and put 74 of the 300 or sodemonstrators on probation...
...have public demonstrations been very effective. The march on the Pentagon only a few days before Dow came to Harvard may have been perversely satisfying to students who wanted the Federal troops and police to over-react. Unfortunately it did little to increase antiwar sentiment among voters. The Washington veterans' bitterness at the treatment they got that bloody weekend, compounded by their unrelieved frustration, undoubtedly affected what went on in Mallinckrodt's hallway...
...many participants, however, there were other reasons to obstruct the Dow representative. For one thing, a sit-in open defiance of University rules would let the Administration and Faculty know that at least a few students were outraged by Harvard's willingness to cooperate with companies and agencies linked to the American war effort. These students, many of whom started the sit-in are certain that "free expression or movement" are not the paramount issues...
Still, at this point, there is only so much the Faculty can do to soothe the students who obstructed the Dow recruiter. Few professors would ever accept restrictions on the work they do for the government, classified or not. Research expenses are high these days and the government is the richest benefactor. This factor, of course, pales before the spectre of possible incursions upon academic freedom. For University policy dictates only that a professor meet his commitments to the Faculty and students. The rest of his time is virtually...
...Faculty-student-Administration committee--the first of its kind at Harvard--will be created in the near future to study some of the issues raised by last week's Dow Chemical...