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...amazing thing is how they could accept our statement and reject a moderate statement supporting the day of protest," Ptashne said. (The Faculty amended the original Moratorium resolution-proposed by Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science-to say that the Faculty "recognizes that October 15 is a day of protest" rather than "affirms its support of the day of protest...
Ptashne outlined to the crowd of about 100 what he understood to be the basic strategy of the Faculty meeting. "It firstseemed logical that they would either let the Mendelsohn motion through since it was so weak and then recess or else recess immediately," he said. "Instead they amended Mendelsohn's motion so that it was apolitical...
...Then it seemed that they would either amend Mendelsohn's motion and recess or, if the amendment failed, recess immediately," Ptashne continued. "That would have been rational. But what actually happened was that Mendelsohn gave a strong speech, stressing that the Moratorium was a political and moral matter that should be discussed at the meeting. Our opposition panicked...
...answer appears to lie partly in the differing ways in which the proponents of the two "political" resolutions argued their respective cases. Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, and others supporting endorsement of the October 15 moratorium spoke a hard line: they urged the Faculty to take an open political stand, and made an inadequate effort to ease the fears of those Faculty members afraid of opening future meetings to a flood of political resolutions having little or no connection with academic affairs...
...attempt to get around the moral and political issues, but an attempt to have the Faculty face those issues," Mendelsohn said of his resolution. Another proponent argued that "Every action we have taken since April has a political content...