Word: ogcp
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...Harvard again, and not surprisingly, the ground rules of the new visit are in dispute. The Chemistry Department invited Dow this time, not the College's Officer of Graduate and Career Plans; and apparently, last year's faculty resolution on recruiting applied only to future guests of the OGCP. So far the Chemistry faculty has acted quietly and responsibly, encouraging and accepting student requests for a public meeting with the Dow representatives. The Department should complete its gesture of good will by leaving the meeting open to the whole University instead of limiting attendance to Chemistry students, as some students...
CLAUSE TWO: The majority supporting this clause--presumably larger than that supporting the resolution as a whole--considered that the OGCP offers not only a service to students but a substantial convenience to the interviewing organizations. To the majority of the SFAC, such activities as the interviewing of students with a view to prospective employment or the providing of information by a company as part of its business policy, seemed ancillary to the University's central purpose. The convenience offered to organizations interviewing at the OGCP was held to be rather a privilege than a right. It seemed...
CLAUSE THREE: This proposal was naturally the most controversial and received long and thoroughgoing discussion. It was maintained, against the contrary view of some in the minority, that the use which corporate and other interviewers typically make of the facilities of the OGCP cannot claim the strong protection which the University must give, as all agreed, to the speech of teachers and students in classrooms or to speech in other University forums...
Assuming this distinction, it was further maintained that the University need not play host in the OGCP to organizations whose activities conflict with its own ends and moral commitments as a university, and that if an organization is so perceived by a significant body of University opinion, the University may sometimes properly act on that opinion. It seemed, moreover, that undergraduates should have a strong voice in any such decision, since the OGCP exists primarily to serve them...
...attended these ideas, but the majority of the Council felt that a way of implementing them could and should be found. The mechanism finally proposed in the Council's resolution is designed to prevent hasty or unconsidered action. Under its provisions, a petition to withhold the facilities of the OGCP from an organization wishing to interview there can be initiated only after the organization has been given an opportunity to defend its policies, and the petition must then receive about 1200 signatures of undergraduates who feel that stronger action needs to be taken. It must further be approved...