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...Glee Club had already agreed to record the song when Yale University president A. Bartlett Giamatti stepped in. He forbade the enterprise entirely. In a statement released last week. Giamatti explained that the Glee Club represented the University and added. "The University does not take sides or lend its name to one political cause or another, no matter how compelling that cause...
Cries of protest greeted Giamatti's decision from all sides. A representative of a group called Solidarity International of Connecticut Inc. called it a "slap in the face," and criticized Giamatti for not allowing the singers to "lift a finger in support of that embattled and impoverished nation." Columnist William F. Buckley criticized Giamatti's plea that the University not speak out on political issues. "Perhaps a glee club representing a university less fastidious than Yale will...risk its reputation by siding with the men and women of Poland," he wrote in a syndicated column last week...
...these outspoken objections seem to miss the point of Giamatti's action, a misunderstanding which may be his own fault Yale's president certainly does not wish to silence any political expression by the University. Giamatti himself has frequently spoken out in the political forum as one of the leading advocates of federal aid to education. And in a Freshman Week address last fall, he warned of the evils of the Moral Majority...
Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.: "In urging you beyond ideology, I offer the view of one person, one who is clearly middleaged, middleclass, middle of the road-a view of one not given to extremes but to the middle. My middle view is the view of the centrist. I do not simply urge a long night of watching against the ideologue's delusive plausibility. I urge the positive, balanced, continuous operation of the mind and spirit that surges to do the work of civilization from the center without simplistic zealotry...
...decision then generally drew praise, he would probably never follow. Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti's footsteps in using a University platform to address a non-educational national issue, like when Giamatti blasted the Moral Majority during his opening address to freshmen last fall. It was only with great reluctance that the Faculty voted on a resolution condemning the Vietnam war early in Bok's tenure and the President's actions indicate the University is unlikely to ever formally condemn the arms race and nuclear was as Dartmouth's faculty did last month...