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Although the committee will not formally impose any punishment, its "factual report" to the Corporation will serve as a de facto indictment. The committee's task in preparing that report will not be as easy as investigating professor guilty of simple criminal offenses. Like everyone else in the University, Faculty members acted to implement their own political beliefs during the political crisis that gripped Harvard. None of those acts clearly crossed the line that separates extended dissent from criminal action. To now single out a few Faculty members because their credoes led them to "unacceptable" conduct would be unjust...
...student activists, though, such words lack credibility because the modern university is already, in their view, a de facto political institution. Politics, they argue, is concerned with how and by whom a society's resources shall be directed. As they see it, universities have become political not only by training people for social roles but by performing Government research and supporting official policies. Thus, universities now share the blame for causing the nation's ills. The activists believe that they are merely redirecting the American university, yoking it to needed reforms and to the drive for a better...
...political differences between the two groups were real and dangerous. "They exhibit," muses Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government and de facto leader of the liberals, "almost all the characteristics of the eternal left and the perpetual right...
...these student leaders was left with the impression that Glimp had decided to call a police bust at round 5 a.m. this morning. Glimp had refused to comment to him whether today's 10 a.m. meeting would be ex post facto...
Expected Response. It was a significant concession, for Thieu, like other South Vietnamese leaders, had shied away from such meetings on the ground that these might constitute de facto recognition of the Front. Emphasizing this concern, Thieu stressed that the Saigon government has no intention of allowing the N.L.F. to join any sort of coalition government in South Viet Nam, and he barred any Communist participation in elections, at least as overt...