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Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government and a member of the Student Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC), will present the motion, which the SFAC passed on Jan. 16. Some 57 Harvard students were placed on probation after the Paine Hall demonstration, but the exact number of those who are on scholarship has not been officially announced...
...would strike us as eminently unfair for Tuesday's outcome to be construed as either a repudiation of the SFAC or a reflection on Professor Hoffmann's eloquent and spirited defense of the handi-work of his silent or absent colleagues. James C. Thomson Jr. (Assistant Professor of History) Robert V. Pound (Mallinkrodt Professor of Physics) Martin H. Peretz (Assistant Professor of Social Studies) Rogers G. Albritton (Professor of Philosophy) Members of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, said yesterday that he did not anticipate any action on attendance at Faculty meeting on Tuesday. "There has been no effort to coordinate action. I can imagine 25 different proposals. It will probably be referred to a committee," he said...
Other original signers of the letter to the Ad Board, in addition to Martin, include Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, and Michael L. Walzer, associate professor of Government. The decision to write the letter was reached at the meeting of some concerned Faculty members held must last Friday...
...Hoffmann made a number of additional points at great length: the creation of SFAC to expedite dialogue; the "new procedure on recruitment"; the willingness of the faculty to consider carefully the merits of open meetings. He attempts to present Harvard administration policy in terms of Marcuse's "repressive tolerance": call the demonstration "the most serious since I've been here" (Dean Ford), threaten unlimited punishment, and then sneer at the number of people who stayed. And finally, he attempts to pin our action on Hilary Putnam. That's pretty foul for a kindly uncle. Hutch Jenness...