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...SUNDAY morning, September 22, Paul Olimpieri, an AWOL Marine, took sanctuary in the Andover Chapel of the Harvard Divinity School. Two days later Military Police took him out. Then, with barely a whimper, the first "confrontation" of the fall dissolved into nothingness...
...dean of the Divinity School, and the Marine Corps is not an answer. But because the war has thrust itself into every part of American life, one grabs onto every opportunity to fight and every symbol of opposition. Each symbol is inadequate, but each one becomes important. Last week Olimpieri was important...
...stopped there, and he shouldn't have. At the time of his appointment last January, Stendahl said he hoped to see the Divinity School "become sensitive" to the injustices of society. During the two days of Paul Olimpieri's sanctuary, however, Stendahl refused to confront those injustices. He was under no obligation either to defend or to oppose the politics of Olimpieri's action; but without a word about politics, without a word about the war, and without a word about the Divinity School's stand on draft resistance, Stendahl could have responded to the situation...
...expected the Faculty to physically harrass the MP's when they came to arrest the Marine or to taunt them with cries of "Pigs! Pigs!" But, in Cox's words, one expected "something": Faculty members might have made statements of support, or joined the chain which bound Olimpieri to his wife and friends, or brought him food. In short, they might have shared symbolically in the Marine's protest...
...turned in their draft cards, the Faculty unanimously adopted a statement in opposition to the war in Vietnam and in support of draft resistance. "Accordingly," it read, "we are prepared to help bear the burdens of those who have been conscientiously led to extraordinary means of dissent." When Olimpieri took sanctuary on Sunday, Harvey G. Cox, associate professor of Church and Society, said he hoped the Faculty would "do something together." It didn...