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...CENTRAL issue of this strike, as we see it, is the structure of the decision-making process at Harvard. We consider the present power-holders to be incompetent, illegitimate, and inimical to the interests of the Community and the University. therefore, we indict the President and Fellows of Harvard University. We challenge the right and the competence of the Harvard Corporation and its administration to continue making vital decisions without the full participation of Faculty, students and, where applicable, the greater community. Specifically, we challenge the Corporation and its administration to defend and explain the following representative actions and conditions...
...like the measles and polio viruses, may cause permanent damage. Others, like those of hepatitis and rabies, may spend months in incubation before they cause apparent illness. But these, it had been thought, were the exceptions. A researcher trying to indict a virus as the cause of a still unexplained disease has ordinarily injected his test materials into small lab animals and waited a few months. If none of the animals got the disease in that time, he killed them and wrote off the experiment as a failure...
...were even members of the National Renewal Alliance, the government party established after the first military takeover in March 1964 against Leftist Joao Goulart. The government last week indicated that it may disband the party. One embarrassing reason: 70 of its members were among the Congressmen who refused to indict Fellow Legislator Márcio Moreira Alves for slurs against the army. It was the "no" vote of a normally compliant Congress that ostensibly touched off the military's intervention...
...failed to indict the lending institutions for taking their "pound of flesh" from the already harassed home buyer. The questionable fees charged for making the loan and the "tribute" the seller must pay in points charged against him when a buyer seeks an FHA loan are tantamount to fiscal blackmail...
...students and teachers we have no objective interest in kicking down the far from sturdy walls that still do protect us. For all their faults and inadequacies the universities, and especially perhaps Harvard, do constitute a moat behind which it is still possible to examine and indict the destructive trends in our society...