Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...number of professors who ardently supported the idea of a joint committee left with the queasy feeling that the Administration had succeeded in forestalling action at least until the next Faculty meeting. That was not Pusey's intent. At the press conference after the meeting, Dean Ford made it clear that even without a vote the Administration felt committed to establish a student-Faculty group of some kind. What had been preserved by Pusey's action was not a path for avoiding action, but rather a maximum of flexibility in setting up the committee...
Ford, it is clear, will take the leading role in collecting ideas and making recommendations to Pusey. Ford himself, far from being hostile to the idea, has indicated to some Faculty members that he rather likes...
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...
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...