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...affecting the air we breathe, the water we drink and the land we till. Every infant born in America today has detectable quantities of DDT in his body." Possibly to get away from it all, Piccard announced plans to submerge himself in a four-to-six-week underwater "free drift" from Florida to Nova Scotia next summer...
...does this imply that students' views on the University's role in society depend wholly on their degree of alienation from the current drift of American public policy. Many students--and some Faculty agree with them--would like to see Harvard's course of study give more emphasis to matters of ethics, philosophy, and metaphysics...
Royster has the conservative's ingrained distrust of people with neat solutions. "The fantasy that for every problem there exists a political solution is responsible for the drift toward paternalistic government. In its extreme form, it helps account for that phenomenon of the 20th century, the totalitarian state." While poverty clearly exists in the U.S., he feels that it has been grossly exaggerated. "Believe me," he writes, "in the slums you will also find the tempest-tossed from other lands to whom this 'poverty' is something they fled to from something far worse...
Nevertheless the general situation does create a dilemma for those of us who find ourselves in passionate opposition to the general drift of American society--a position often reached with uneasy astonishment. As students and teachers we have no objective interest in kicking down the far from sturdy walls that still do protect us. For all their faults and inadequacies the universities, and especially perhaps Harvard, do constitute a moat behind which it is still possible to examine and indict the destructive trends in our society. There may be some students at Harvard, perhaps on occasion even a stray faculty...
...carefully worded to include all shades of dovish opinion. A "no" vote will almost certainly be interpreted as an endorsement of President Johnson's conduct of the war--or worse, as an invitation to escalate the conflict. A "yes" vote would be a clear statement of concern over the drift of U.S. war policy...