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...agree with Master Gill that violent methods of changing or influencing Harvard policy are not beneficial to the University but only disrupt communications. I think there are many students on the HUC, SFAC, and HRPC like myself who have never been in favor of violent methods. Nevertheless, I think we are upset at what may seem to be a dangerous trend concerning the manner in which change comes about at Harvard...
Stanley L. Cavell, Walter F. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Michael Walzer, associate professor of Government, John Womack, instructor in History, Mary K. Tolbert '69, secretary to the HRPC, and Timothy Gould '69 issued a statement yesterday calling for "either no punishment or a postponed decision until the community has had a chance to re-structure its procedures for making decisions in an atmosphere of tolerance and reason." Walzer said last night that he did not know whether there would be a motion for postponement or not. "It all depends on what the Ad Board...
Second, it should be noted that on the specific issue of ROTC the Faculty had shown itself unusually responsive to student opinion. The ROTC issue was raised at student initiative. The Faculty has received resolutions from the SFAC and the HUC and also the excellent report of HRPC. At the same Faculty meeting when Professor Putnam spoke, Professor Albritton reported on the discussions of ROTC in SFAC and Professor Lipset recorded the views of YPSL, including the view that a college-wide referendum should be taken. Moreover, the ensuing Faculty discussion suggested that Faculty views on ROTC are quite close...
...changed. The supporters of tomorrow's proposal have argued that the university should not allow ROTC to pursue its recruitment and training activities here in any way, and consequently are pressing for abolition of ROTC. Another group, which includes a majority of the members of the HUC, the HRPC, and the SFAC, has sought to end ROTC's academic status at Harvard while permitting the units to remain here in some form, perhaps in the status similar to that of the Institute of Politics...
...Both the HRPC and the HUC had passed resolutions earlier this month asking for changes in ROTC's academic status, and the HRPC issued a ten-page report on Sunday attacking "the role of the military in a liberal arts institution...