Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues are on the docket for today's special Faculty meeting: a non-binding resolution supporting the October 15 moratorium and a motion calling for immediate withdrawal from Vietnam...
...group of at least 150 Faculty members, however, have stated that they will try to prevent the withdrawal motion from being voted upon during the regular Faculty meeting...
Robert Dorfman, professor of Economics and a leader of the group opposing a regular Faculty vote on withdrawal, said yesterday that a member of his group will ask the Faculty to recess during today's session and then hold a non-official convocation on the withdrawal motion...
John T. Edsall '23, professor of Biological Chemistry, who will introduce the withdrawal motion today, answered this line of reasoning last night. "The resolution is profoundly related to the business of the University- the Vietnam war has had a poisonous effect on U.S. life in general and University life in particular," he said...
Edsall added that he was not, however, introducing the motion primarily because of the war's effects on the University. "We are introducing the motion because of the broader evil effects that the war has inflicted on all U. S. society," he said...