Word: puseys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pusey also urged "everyone in the University to stand in quiet resolution, so that we shall not be victimized by obfuscation, while our chosen representatives seek a just resolution of the present grave problem and work to insure respect for a basic article of our shared responsibility." He added that the "reprehensible occurrence in Sanders Theatre puts the whole community on trial...
...gave two examples where, they said, the Administration perverted the free-speech argument. They cited the "facist riot-control course" which the Design School attempted to sponsor in 1969 and Pusey's termination in 1954 of three Faculty appointments of alleged Communists...
...reminded us of the many controversial figures who have found lecterns open to them at Harvard, from George Wallace to Fidel Castro; but we also recall the cases, like that of Pete Seeger, where the same freedom was denied. We are reminded of the vigorous campaign that President Pusey fought to save this University from the McCarthy witchhunts; but we then recall how Pusey returned to Harvard, intent on proving that the campus could police itself to the satisfaction of its outside critics-thus making the supposed "freedom" for which he fought a spurious one. And, most recently, we have...
...equally self-destructive. Disciplinary procedures become mindless machinery when they operate in a morally bankrupt environment. The primary need of the moment is not retribution but moral leadership and development of a University-wide consensus so that the principle of free speech will not be violated in the future. Pusey, over the past two years, has consistently failed to provide such leadership. It is to be hoped that Derek Bok, even before he takes official office, will provide a rallying point around which members of the University can reaffirm their belief in free speech...
...special issue on guerrilla war published anywhere in the U. S. was such an abridgement. At the Chicago Convention, when Mayor Daley turned off the microphone of the Wisconsin delegation, which was trying to protest the police riot, that was a curtailment of free speech. When Nathan Pusey fired Faculty members for the "crime" of Communism, that too was suppression of free speech...