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Putnam argued in a Faculty meeting April 13 that the recommended procedures "expose the sham neutrality of the University." He described the recommended procedures as "an attempt to stampede the faculty into a mood of repression which could be used to purge me from the faculty and people who think...
Putnam urged the Faculty to vote against the proposal because, he said, it is "an attempt to stampede the Faculty into a mood of repression to purge the Faculty of me and those who think like me." Putnam had earlier charged that the Administration was seeking to oust him because...
It is not enough to purge the disrupters. And for University administrators to spend the coming weeks screening motion picture film in an effort to establish identities and actions is equally self-destructive. Disciplinary procedures become mindless machinery when they operate in a morally bankrupt environment. The primary need of...
But the main dishonesty in the proposed purge is that it ignores that the main disruptive force at Harvard-as everywhere in America-is the war. All civil liberties-freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, freedom of thought-have been disrupted by domestic effects of America...
We find the notion that a university or one of its units might "punish" a member because of political differences to be completely reprehensible. We are happy, therefore, that the Department of Government and various members of the Harvard community have laid to rest any speculation that your colleagues have...