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...conducted a straw poll among SFAC members in order to choose the representatives for the Faculty meeting. He added that he tried to get SFAC members' views of ROTC ranging from support of the SFAC resolution (denying ROTC academic credit, academic appointments, and free space) to the Hilary Putnam resolution (severing ROTC from the University...
...resolution--to be presented by Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy -- which calls for ROTC's complete expulsion from Harvard...
...should refuse to allow ROTC on its campus. But SDS too lacked any formal vehicle to put its proposals before the Faculty. Then, on Nov. 20, SDS pulled a surprise move. As it became clear that the Faculty would consider some ROTC proposals in December, SDS announced that Hilary Putnam would present its case for total expulsion...
After the SFAC' decision, the December 3 Faculty meeting was ready to consider three proposals -- Putnam's, Lipset's, and SFAC's. The meeting came went, however, without voting on any of the resolutions. Instead, Faculty members argued that they had not had enough time to consider the alternatives. A special meeting was scheduled for Dec. 12 to vote on the three plans...
...BITTER WOODS by John S. D. Eisenhower. 506 pages. G. P. Putnam's Sons...