Word: questioned
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...after rioting students repeatedly provoked police occupation of their school. New York City has never been closer to anarchy than it was during last fall's teacher strike, and white reaction to the strike seems likely to doom meaningful action in the New York legislature on the community control question. The combined votes of Nixon and Wallace in the last election speak for themselves...
Prior to the SFAC meeting, many Faculty members and students had attacked President Pusey's stand on ROTC, as expressed in his letter to Dean Ford, for what they felt was a misinterpretation of the Faculty's intent. There had been no chance to question him, however, about the reasoning behind the "egregious misuse" of the resolution. Few believed that he had maliciously misinterpreted the resolution; most liberals on SFAC seemed to believe that he had some special reasons for saying what he had. These, many felt, might be brought to light by his testimony before the closed meeting which...
...answer to another question he said that since there was no unanimity of opinion on any topic in the Harvard community, the President must speak for the University. He said that he only speaks on educational policy when the University is directly threatened...
...response to my own question on the University's lack of neutrality on the ROTC issue, he said, "The current notion that the military-industrial complex is an evil thing does not correspond to reality." Several times during the meeting he reiterated his position that the current danger to the University was from those within the University who are upset about the war in Vietnam. The SDS demonstration at the beginning of the SFAC meeting was, he said, typical of this threat...
...other extended debate concerned allowing Faculty and Administration members to remain in the building. The question was raised by the presence of Arthur Smithies, Master of Kirkland House, who was observing the proceedings and speaking to students...