Word: hoffmann
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...effect of this system for handling SFAC resolutions, as Stanley H. Hoffmann said Tuesday night, is to take pressure off Pusey. The President's decision to leave Dow and future resolutions to the Faculty is understandable. "I myself am satisfied that at least there was a Faculty discussion," Hoffmann said. If Pusey had simply rejected the postponement request himself, the Administration would have been the whipping boy for student discontent. "At least in this case," Hoffmann said, "they must be angry with...
...risk of a new crisis would have prejudged the issue even more; for if the crisis occurs, the "free and unprejudiced discussion of the full range of issues now before the Council" that Professor Gill, along with the Council's members, calls for will become quite impossible. Stanley Hoffmann Professor of Government
...word Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, used in defending the Dow resolution (which he proposed) was "prudence." The Council was not making any substantive decisions, he said, but was merely asking the Administration to be prudent and postpone the Dow visit. The same prudence led the Council to ask that Fouts be seated--instead of asking that all Dow probations be lifted. And had Peretz's motion been called to a vote and accepted, it would have been prudence that asked for the ban on military recruitment because of the Hershey directive...
...Council has proved not to be a radical body. If some members would privately want to see the University speak out against the War or see all War-related industries banned from recruiting, in voting on Council resolutions they seem to be guided by what Hoffmann calls prudence--a concern for taking the most responsible stand...
...Student-Faculty Advisory Committee meeting of February 6 you mentioned that the resolution which the Council adopted lists among the concerns of the Council "the rights and moralities of protest." The resolution actually refers to "the rights and modalities of protest," i.e., its forms and limits. Stanley H. Hoffmann Professor of Government