Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid the political, social and moral explications of Wednesday's invasion and Thursday's eviction, the Oedipal should not be overlooked: the sons of the family deposed the fathers (the Deans), riddled the Sphinx (the confidential files), and seized the womb (University Hall). The primacy of the fathers was restored with a ram and night sticks. Joel E. Cohen '65 Junior Fellow
...Corporation recognize the authority of this committee on issues relevant to the life of the community, and its moral and social concerns...
There is presently circulating a proposal to refer this question to a binding referendum of the entire University community. The difficulty with this proposal is that ROTC is not a question, to be resolved by majority vote. It is a moral question, and for this reason a majority vote. It is a moral question, and for this reason a majority vote cannot be considered binding on those who hold a moral position which happens to be in the minority. This principle is commonly accepted in democratic societies: school segregation, state religion and genocide are examples of policies which could easily...
...Harvard student body and student bodies on the whole to decide whether they will allow their repugnance for a particular tactic to demoralize their well-directed political senses. The issues involved are ROTC and university complicity in the current war effort. Students should not allow the political and moral concerns of dissenting students to be clouded over or ignored by charges of trespassing on university property. The quality of a conscientiously objecting act is radically different from a criminal one and in no way should merit the type of police action taken against it here at Harvard. The malicious clubbing...
...belief is the immorality of ROTC and the group is SDS. The latest move on the part of SDS has left me in a quandry. On the one hand, I support the very issues which prompted the occupation of University Hall and I feel compelled as a "supposedly" moral, rational member of our fluid society to cast my vote in favor of the removal of ROTC from its present status on campus. And yet I am paralyzed by a desire not to rally to the black-white-and-red flag, the symbol of an organization with which...