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Michael L. Walzer, associate professor of Government, Martin H. Peretz, instructor in Social Studies, and Jared M. Israel '67 joined Mumma in outlining to 130 students what they can do to end the war. They endorsed and explained "Vietnam Summer...
...Peretz took a different tack, emphasizing that dissenters from American policy should not be afraid of the labels of "irresponsibility" and "lack of patriotism...
...rare moment of sympathy for members of the Administration, Peretz said that it was unfair to put proiminent politicians on a platform and ask them to participate in a public dialogue, because they couldn't be expected to present more than a simplified PR image of their compliciated political lives. "If people come here to talk they must be able to be honest, and in order to be honest they must either have a certain distance from their subject or subtlety of speech." Instead of political or ceremonial events, Peretz says he would like to hear Dean Acheson speaking...
...methods, he continues. If the Institute insists on sponsoring political and ceremonial events then the students have every right to treat them as such and demonstrate against them. "To present these speakers as anything other than a political event under an academic disguise is a betrayal of the students," Peretz said...
...Harvard is isolated from the outside world, Peretz continued, and needs to bring in officials from Washington -- "there are even some of us who think they are already in excess." In forcing the students to examine the Establishment and its mechanical process, Peretz said, the Institute has failed to internalize any kind of critical format which will allow the student to judge the Government as well as understand it. "If the people who are brought to speak to the students about politics can't be candid with them, then they just as well might be appearing on 'Meet the Press...