Word: formally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formal vote at the meeting was 255 for the resolution, 81 against, and 150 abstain...
Several professors-including those who had said before the meeting that the Faculty should consider the resolution at an informal convocation or during a recess-said during the debate that the Faculty should not vote on "political" issues at its formal meeting...
...Faculty should restrict its formal votes to matters in which it has a direct concern and on which its members are more professionally qualified. Kenneth Arrow, professor of Economics, said that the Faculty's votes last spring on Afro-American Studies and ROTC were examples of proper Faculty action n social issues directly within its concern...
...University would face reaction from outside groups if one of its Faculties took a formal stand. Carl Friederich, professor of Government, pointed out that the University's status as a tax-exempt organization prohibited it from getting involved in public policy issues. Several other Faculty members said that a vote might bring retribution from Congress or other parts of the government...
...press for its immediate cessation. Because the circumstances are unique, the Faculty's decision to consider political questions today would not set a precedent for future votes on more mundane issues. But because the war is so abhorrent, the Faculty cannot fail to consider these two resolutions in formal session...