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Wagler said the "serious" Republican group at the meeting was distinct from the faction responsible for the interruptions. "They were making a mockery of the meeting," he said...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: YR's Disrupt SDS Elections, Attempt to Seize Co-Chairmanship | 2/27/1967 | See Source »

Although member colleges have remained loyal, there is a faction of American students who frankly wish NSA had decided to fold instead. They feel that NSA is a failure as a national student union, and that its dissolution might be a step towards constructing a better...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: CIA Will Survive, But a Discredited NSA Must Build Itself an 'Emancipated' Image | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

Congressman Thomas B. Curtis (R. Mo.), leader of the voluntary army faction in Congress, last night delivered a corrosive attack on the commission's conclusions and procedures. "What is this star chamber business, holding meetings behind closed doors on an issue of such importance?" he asked...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Draft Commission to Ask End of II-S | 2/9/1967 | See Source »

...rank proposal carried about 70 per cent of the votes. Shenton points out that it actually fared better than that, since one faculty faction--dominated by mathematicians--abstained because they considered the proposal too weak. They wanted the faculty to denounce the war in Vietnam itself...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Getting Faculty to Confront the Draft Depends on Discovering the Right Angle | 2/9/1967 | See Source »

...clear what Columbia would have done with a proposal, such as Harvard's to attack 2-S. A condemnation of 2-S seems to lie somewhere between what Columbia approved and what the mathematicians' faction wanted to approve. When Hovde was asked about a 2-S proposal, he hesitated and then said he was not sure what Columbia would have decided if that had turned out to be its issue...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Getting Faculty to Confront the Draft Depends on Discovering the Right Angle | 2/9/1967 | See Source »

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