Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student-Faculty Advisory Council has raised in its latest sessions. The Advisory Council has decided that while it is permissible for the Career office and Department placement officers to invite in most prospective employers, there may be some employers whose activities are so repugnant that they offend the moral sense of a substantial portion of the University, and that to allow them in might in effect be seen as University condonement of what they do. The most obvious examples of such organizations would be Dow Chemical Corporation and the Central Intelligence Agency...
...impossible to think of any acceptable mechanism in support of the Advisory Council's "most recruiters--yes; some--no" policy. Just what percentage of students, Faculty, administrators, or even Student-Faculty Council members is sufficient to decree any organization so offensive to individual moral sense that it cannot enjoy the convenience Harvard will continue to offer other organizations? Will it come down, perhaps, to a case in which Dow is indeed decreed morally acceptable to Harvard in a narrow 343-342 vote? Or will the CIA lose out one year, only to make a strong electoral comeback with the entrance...
...moral worth of businesses and government agencies can not be voted, or petitioned, or decreed, either by a minority, substantial or not, or by a majority. If recruiting is allowed on campus, it has to be open recruiting...
...remember one old man who spoke after a sober and moving exposition of the terrible damage to maternal health caused by forcing a partially crippled woman to bear a full term pregnancy. The old man, who purported to be the leader of a "moral conservation society," asserted that a change in the law would somehow be an extension of the affront to society posed by the hippies "who feel they have a right to live together...
...dismayed by Dr. Graham Blaine's statement in the April 12 edition of Time (p. 60). In the space of less than one-third column were juxtaposed ideas about a rise in the illegitimate-birth rate, parietals, and morality. If I didn't misinterpret Dr. Blaine's message, he apparently finds a certain connection among these three phenomena. He "expressed concern" about a seemingly widespread "form of student behavior," then cited the fact that "illegitimate births in the U.S. have tripled in the past 25 years." Partly to blame are "college officials who, by allowing men and women to visit...