Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easily defeated. The SDS position was that Harvard, for moral and political reasons, should refuse to allow ROTC on campus in any form. SDS, like the other organizations, lacked a formal vehicle to bring its proposals before the Faculty. But on November 20, the organization announced that Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, would present its case for total expulsion...
...itself. On the day of the Paine Hall sit-in, stalwarts of the Faculty's liberal wing like Stanley Hoffman and Michael Walzer, professors of Government, told students they thought the sit-in was a tactical error and would not further the anti-ROTC cause. Even SDS-connected Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, told the students, "You shouldn't regard the Faculty as your enemy...
...Putnam and President Bok decided last fall to keep the portfolio management separate from the Treasurer's Office, and felt that an independent management company set up by the Corporation was the cheapest way to handle the endowment...
...accuse Putnam or Cabot of contemplating a complete break from traditional norms of financial management, but they are developing a keen awareness to problems of conflict-of-interest and corporate responsibility, which Bennett always chose to ignore...
Cabot and Putnam also said this week they will carefully try to avoid investing in companies they don't believe are "socially responsible," because in the long run these companies cost the University money...