Word: evens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Vermont Avenue headquarters of the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee, whose first nationwide demonstration, scheduled for Oct. 15, appears to be gathering momentum beyond all expectations. Nixon cannot turn a knob or issue an order that will still Democratic Senators Mike Mansfield and William Fulbright. He cannot even silence Republican Senator Charles Goodell...
...pessimistic conclusion is that TV may have even pitilessly deluded us into thinking that we are free to change all of this...
There is another objection to this first point. For assuming, even, that the university is a-political, point one comes nowhere near meeting opposition to the war as a moral issue. Will the faculty claim the right to function 'without moral objectives,' a la Werner von Braun? By choosing to view opposition to the war as a strictly "political" issue the faculty simply defines things to make it easier for itself, and fails completely in meeting opposition whose roots are in moral outrage...
Doubtless objection will be made on the grounds that politics already do enter into faculty appointment (of the Jack Stauder case). But even if this objection is valid, which I believe it is, it is still insufficient. That evil is already being accomplished is no excuse for accomplishing more...
...even granting those fears were sincere, the Faculty's handling of the motion on the Vietnam Moratorium is difficult to understand. The Moratorium resolution may have seemed tainted with political content, but the Moratorium itself has gained such widespread support that a mere expression of "support" could hardly have been viewed as a precedent. If the Boston City Council finds this protest worthy of endorsement, and three local universities have cancelled classes to observe it, then the Faculty should have been able to suspend its long-guarded neutrality...