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...college students who oppose the war in Viet Nam, a single corporation, the Dow Chemical Co. of Midland, Mich., has all of a sudden become the most popular target for protests. Reason for student antagonism is that Dow, at a small plant in Torrance, Calif., produces virtually all the napalm that is being used by U.S. armed forces in Viet...
...world, are morally outraged by the war in Vietnam. Students in many universities, including most recently Harvard, have expressed this sense of outrage by protesting the use of university facilities for job recruitment by representatives of such war-supporting companies as Dow Chemical Corporation, chief supplier of napalm. By their actions they have forced the issue of university attitudes toward campus recruitment by the armed forces and by such companies as Dow Chemical, and we as faculty members wish to join them in urging that universities refuse the use of their facilities for recruitment of this kind. We cannot endorse...
Because of the demonstration against a Dow Chemical Recruiter, I know of a couple of women who have been alerted to the maker of Saran Wrap's being also the maker of napalm. They are going to boycott Saran Wrap. As the editorial points out, Dow Chemical Company is not the only culprit and not the original one, but some exposure of industrial-military power in the country may help. The demonstration caused some persons to think...
...severing anyone, the Faculty realized that many of the students became involved in the demonstration on the spur of the moment last Wednesday. Their activities grew out of justifiable bitterness over the war and the use of napalm. At most, only a few of those punished were determined to mount a premeditated assault on the rules of the University. And many of the demonstrators now regret the tactic of obstruction they used to protest the war and Dow's appearance at Harvard...
There have been a number of attempts to misrepresent the issue here as being concerned with the use of napalm or the war in Vietnam. No one in a official connection with the University has ever suggested that students should not have freedom to demonstrate in an orderly fashion or otherwise to express their views on these or other matters of concern to them. Indeed they have been encouraged to do so. Objections arise only when they become so carried away by their conviction about the rightness of their cause and so impatient with civilized procedures that they seek...