Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many voted for Johnson because he promised peace, even though they had reservations about him in other respects. As they see it, Johnson went on to adopt Barry Goldwater's war policies. This time, they see no significant differences between the candidates on Viet Nam. To register a moral protest, many war dissenters plan to boycott the polls entirely on the theory that a huge nonvote will somehow shock the new Ad ministration, or at least free dissenters from complicity in electing Nixon or Humphrey, both of whom vaguely promise only "an honorable peace...
...activities are not a technical question," Lance E. Lindblom '70 said in support of the resolution, "but a moral question about the war that undergraduates can speak on just as well as Chemistry students...
...hard, however, to see how knowledge of chemistry can make questioners any more effective in raising the ethical and political questions involved in Dow's manufacture of napalm. The central problem in the Dow controversy--an industry's responsibility for the nature and use of its product--is moral not chemical. It concerns the whole university equally, and it an issue in which no one is expert...
...organization" is not merely ludicrous. It implies that on anyone's say-so, Harvard students can be shorn of their right to join, for example, SDS, on the grounds that SDS is immoral because SDS' confrontation politics strengthen support for Wallace and repression. Who's to decide what's moral and what isn't? If SDS can arrogate to itself such moral infallibility, why can't the Mountaineering Club--who get closer to God--do the same? Jon Ratner '70 President, Harvard-Radcliffe Young People's Socialist League
...spokesmen termed the HUC recommendation "a step in the right direction, but not enough." While HUC based its objection on the fact that ROTC instructors are working for the government, SDS denies that is the relevant moral issue, or that removal of credit would cleanse the university of responsibility...