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...motion never came to a vote. Pusey looked at it and raised a few questions: How, for example, would Faculty members who are also Administration officials be considered for purposes of selection to such a committee? Pusey asked Hoffmann whether the two could consult before actually taking a vote on the idea. Hoffmann agreed, and the meeting ended...
...shared by radical student advocates. Some members of Students for a Democratic Society want to see a committee that will bring to an end, for example, military recruitment on campus. Ford has said that he sees little possibility for a significant change in Harvard's recruitment policy; according to Hoffmann, the only Faculty criticism of his motion has been on the provision for a suspension of recruitment; Hoffmann himself says that the suspension request was ill advised, and that while he doesn't think corporations have an unassailable "right to recruit," he would be leary of setting up restrictions...
...Hoffmann felt that way at the time he made the motion. While it was drafted in the five minutes before the Faculty meeting and seemed something of an afterthought, Hoffmann and a number of other professors had considered the idea for some days. Hoffmann had come to the conclusion that since restricting recruitment is unlikely and probably unwise, it was going to be necessary to figure out ways in which recruitment could acceptably be protested. Student radicals who feel that any demonstration that hampers the "war machine" should be permitted, and that University officials should do their part by barring...
...that is only minor quibbling. The explosive business of the committee--if it is given the mandate suggested by Hoffmann--will be its investigation of government-backed research at Harvard. To happy SDSers, it conjures up images of the head of some research institute squirming uncomfortably under relentless questioning on the sources of his money...
Students entranced with possible investigations figure that exposure of government involvements will inspire action to end them. Hoffmann doubts it. His idea of the committee--which is no doubt shared in broad outline by Ford--provides not simply for revelations of involvement but a good deal of discussion as to what it all means...