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...Because that amendment passed we thought we were lost," Ptashne said. But at 5:45 p.m., when Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, moved for a 15-minute recess, "no one understood the strategy." By 6 p.m. at a Faculty meeting, Ptashne said, no one is really concentrating- "you have to keep mainlining dexedrine to keep awake...
...voting on Lipset's motion for recess-which failed by only one vote-was confused. Both proponents and opponents of formally approving the withdrawal resolution inadvertently found themselves voting the wrong...
...Those backing the withdrawal motion then benefitted from a parliamentary foul-up. Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, ver-bally stumbled as he moved that the Faculty recess to a convocation in effect that they not vote as an official body on Vietnam...
Many Faculty members appeared to have difficulty comprehending his motion, but there was a quick look of anguish on some faces when Lipset, before correcting himself, suggested that the Faculty reconvene in half an hour. By this time, the clock was approaching six, and many Faculty members undoubtedly did not want to stay past the normal 6:15 endpoint of the meetings...
...Lipset's motion received 45 fewer votes than the comparable amendment which took the political sting out of the resolution on the October 15 moratorium. In all probability, not all of the change was accounted for by confusion; the groundwork laid by Edsall and Albritton had undoubtedly convinced some Faculty members to alter their stance...