Word: nothingnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The faculty statement fails, rather, on different grounds. The crucial words in the statement are "however important." Stripped of pieties and apologies, this statement means that NOTHING is more important to the faculty members in question than the determination of who their potential colleagues will be. No issue or potential...
This is an enormous concept, and cannot be taken lightly. With all due respect to the Harvard faculty and its integrity, and with all due compassion for the consequences of allowing into its midst a colleague who proves unsuited to his new role, one must clearly and simply dissent from...
In fact, there is only one reasonable way of dealing with all these issues, and that is precisely taking each on its merits. If the worry is about losing time, experience shows that in these cases more time is wasted in attempts to decide whether discussion is legitimate, than is...
As it is, the amended motion says in essence, nothing. Anyone who can read a newspaper "recognizes that October 15 is a day of protest," and Faculty members already had the right to call off their classes without getting any "re-affirmation" from an amended motion.
If those who opposed the resolution were sincere in their protestation that they wanted to make the "most effective" statement against the war, they might have arranged some better way of putting themselves on private record once the formal vote was past. As it was, the slapstick convocation only reinforced...