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...Harvard senior has distributed a letter to the entire freshman class claiming that the statements about psychedelic drugs recently made by Dean Monro and the University Health Services have done "tremendous injustice" to the Class...
Perhaps the word "unethical" is the backbone of the problem. In an interview a few weeks ago, John U. Monro '34, Dean of the College, discussed the philosophical ramifications of a corporation's investments. He saw possible moral objections to much of Harvard's common stock portfolio...
...Monro said, "if you start limiting your investments with social welfare in mind, there aren't going to be that many companies available which are free from social criticism...
...instance, he strongly questioned Harvard's million dollar holdings in R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Should the University realize a profit from cigarette companies engaged in "as cynical a game as there is in the world--hooking youths and keeping them hooked?" he asked. In addition Monro pointed out that to those who consider the Vietnam war unjust, the various Harvard investments in companies supplying and "getting rich" on the war could be considered unethical. In this category he lumped University holdings in I.B.M. ($30,715,717, as of June, 1966), Texaco ($26,413,567), General Electric...
...condemn drug use as illegal or dangerous is one thing, but to condemn all the students who have experimented with drugs as wasting their time at Harvard, is quite another. We can only hope that the new Monro Doctrine does not represent a change in University policy towards drug-users and that it is only a meaningless sop thrown to the Food and Drugs investigators...