Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University Hall was not a sensational event and probably will not prove sensationally effective. Wisely ignoring the Dow recruiter two blocks away, the 200 protesters did make their point--that they not only deplore the Vietnam war but also reject the notion that the University can remain neutral to the war effort. It is hard to tell whether anyone listened, but the SDS-led protest was serious and cohesive and may accelerate the SFAC debate on recruitment policy and lead to more productive war protest efforts like the draft resistance union being organized here next week...
Structural defects, however have proved far more crippling than poor logistics and organization. Unlike similar UN observation teams elsewhere, the ICC has never managed to stay aloof from the conflicts it superintends. Its tripartite composition--each team consists of a Communist Pole, Western Canadian, and neutral Indian--has made the ICC as much a forum for propagandizing as an objective mediator...
...make no reply other than the inevitable mouthings of "diplomacy"; when we expend lives in an assault on the strategic Hill 881N and then return the prize to the enemy when we have won it, enabling him to continue to threaten our base; when we apologize to "neutral" Cambodia for intruding on its territory while battling an enemy which lives there-when all these idiotic blunders occur in a single week, it becomes quite evident that someone, somewhere, doesn't know what in hell he's doing...
...relationship between the University and the students is reaching a crisis. The traditional liberal playpen is irrelevant. Harvard is, however reluctantly, supporting the war and the draft by its actions. It is neither politically nor morally neutral. It could not be if it wanted. Those days are over now. Meanwhile, educational policy is being disrupted (How can we justify ranking students for Selective Service but refuse to go along with the NCAA's guidelines on grading?), and worse, students are being snatched out of school for their beliefs...
...University has to realize that it cannot be neutral even if it wants toJoseph Seamans...