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...paper we are now circulating, for abolishing ROTC at Harvard and against punishing the demonstrators at Paine Hall. We hope that this position paper will lead to fruitful discussions among students and Faculty that will clarify and not futrher obscure the issues. Miles Morgan, TF in General Education Hilary Putnam, Professor of Philosophy Paul Carver, TF in Social Studies David Applebaum, TF in Philosophy Victoria Bonnell, TF in Social Studies Ellen Cantarow G Frank Thompson...
...Faculty could have voted not to discipline the Dow demonstrators last winter or could have recommended last spring that military recruiters be barred from campus for the duration of the war. In practice it did neither, and probably will pass up a third chance by voting down the Putnam resolution to ban ROTC...
...represent not a group (the student bodies of Harvard and Radcliffe) but a point of view (that no form of ROTC shall be permitted at this University). This point of view, incidentally, had been presented at length at the previous Faculty meeting by Professor Putnam and Mr. Boyd. Ironically, it is a view whose implementation would limit student rights even though the majority of students might feel otherwise...
...specific issue of ROTC the Faculty had shown itself unusually responsive to student opinion. The ROTC issue was raised at student initiative. The Faculty has received resolutions from the SFAC and the HUC and also the excellent report of HRPC. At the same Faculty meeting when Professor Putnam spoke, Professor Albritton reported on the discussions of ROTC in SFAC and Professor Lipset recorded the views of YPSL, including the view that a college-wide referendum should be taken. Moreover, the ensuing Faculty discussion suggested that Faculty views on ROTC are quite close to representative student opinions, certainly much closer than...
SILENCE ON MONTE SOLE by Jack Olsen. 374 pages. Putnam...