Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original version of the resolution-presented by Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, asked the Faculty to "affirm its support of the October 15 day of protest" and re-affirm its members' right to suspend their classes that...
Roberts called the convocation idea "an elaborate charade," which would have the same "substantive political impact" as a regular vote. He added that the avoidance of a regular Faculty vote would, at the same time, "blunt the motion's moral thrust" and act as "a slap at student protest...
...results. He might assume that such knowledge is good in itself, regardless of how it would be used. Or he might assume that both the knowledge and its probable use are good and right. In any event, he'd be no more objective than the student who would protest his involvement with the Project...
...most serious objection to approval of the resolutions concerns the propriety of the Faculty's voting on political motions. Both resolutions, of course, are avowedly political. One asks that the Faculty affirm "its support of the October 15 day of protest against the War in Vietnam"- the so called Vietnam Moratorium: the other requests that the Faculty formally call for "the immediate withdrawal of U. S. troops" as the most reasonable way to end the Vietnam conflict...
...fall of 1969, and there are not many forms of non-violent protest left. The Faculty can't afford to let these slip...