Word: hoffmann
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...probably right. Yet the Faculty, while it punished him, seems to understand his anger. At Tuesday's special meeting, Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, proposed--to loud applause--a student-Faculty-Administration Committee to deal with the issues that concern the demonstrators. Yesterday, President Pusey said that he felt the Faculty had committed itself to set up such a committee. It will probe, if Hoffmann's plans are adopted, campus recruitment, the University and the war, and forms of off-campus anti-war protest...
...original proposal came at Tuesday's Faculty meeting, when Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, introduced a motion for such a committee to deal specifically with campus recruitment, the relation of Harvard to the Vietnam war, and agreed-upon forms of protest...
Because President Pusey asked to discuss the wording of Hoffmann's motion with him, it was never voted on. But yesterday Pusey acknowledged that "there is a commitment to set up some sort of machinery, yet to be defined...
Neither Pusey nor Dean Ford established whether the committee would cover the issues cited by Hoffmann, and just those issues, or whether it might be of a more general nature. Ford said it was "very unlikely that there will be any significant change" in Harvard's policy toward campus recruitment...
...Faculty's failure Tuesday to make a statement on the Vietnam war, or on recruiters, or on Faculty-student relations, does not mean a lack of serious concern about these and other issues. Professor Hoffmann's suggestion for a Faculty-student-Administration committee is a welcome indication of concern. President Pusey should implement this suggestion as soon as possible in order to begin meaningful communication between Faculty and students. Now that the Faculty has taken action against the Mallinckrodt offenders, it should discuss possibilities to avoid the growing division between "us and them...