Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Partisan Politics...
...Those against the motion, however, answered that it was not possible for students to do effective organizing within the 14-day period suggested by the proposals. They said that any rescheduling would "cheapen" Harvard's academic standards and force the Faculty into a partisan political stand as well...
...James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, countered that such short-term activity could have no significant effect. "We are asking students to ignore everything that political science has to teach about politics." he said. Wilson also charged that the Mendelsohn motion was prompted by partisan considerations, "and for no other reason...
...official action to support students in these activities will be viewed as partisan politics, opposing the Republican administration." Maass said, "Let us not in meeting student demands of May 1969 weaken the capacity of Harvard to teach future generations of students in a free society...
Hughes, declining to comment specifically on what alternatives he thought were open to his committee stressed that any decisions would be made "without violating the basic principle that the University as such not become involved in partisan political activity...