Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote expressing the majority opinion of the Faculty would have no binding effect on those who disagreed. After several Faculty members emphasized that the resolutions would have no coercive effect on the dissenting minority, Hoffmann said that a refusal to vote would also be coercion against those who felt the Faculty should state its view...
...that it can fill the New England town meeting role with something approaching reason or order. Despite the titters that ran through the room when the complicated voting plan was explained, the vote served a function and everyone could leave knowing that the bungles wouldn't have any lasting effect...
...Those backing the withdrawal motion then benefitted from a parliamentary foul-up. Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, ver-bally stumbled as he moved that the Faculty recess to a convocation in effect that they not vote as an official body on Vietnam...
...proposal still a waits ratification by the Board of Trustees. If ratified, the changes will go into effect next Fall...
...quite likely that neither resolution will have any effect on the U. S. policy in Vietnam, even if passed unanimously. The Nixon administration has heard peace suggestions from many prestigious quarters and has been no more responsive than its predecessor. The resolution on the Vietnam Moratorium, if approved, cannot be any more influential than the Moratorium itself, and the Moratorium has crucial flaws. Its platform has been poorly-defined, its turnout will be difficult to estimate, and it can be easily dismissed or ignored by the administration...