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...disappointed by Mr. Emmerich's reporting of events at Thursday's Student Assembly meeting ("Assembly Delays Taking a Position on South Africa"). I was under the impression that he did not view the vote to recess as a trial vote on the entire South Africa issue. Therefore, I did not bother to explain to him all the details of my efforts to bring the Engelhard issue before the Assembly last night. I would like to take this opportunity to set the record straight...
...Emmerich states that "several representatives wanted to present a resolution criticizing the...Kennedy School...for naming a library after...Engelhard." No final resolution had been drawn up in advance. I was still speaking to representatives individually when someone made the motion to recess. I had wanted to sound out representatives' opinions first, so that we could avoid a divisive trial vote. Unfortunately, The Crimson article gives just this misleading impression of the vote...
Further, Mr. Emmerich says that representatives who opposed the recess did not specify what resolutions they intended to propose, but he does not explain why. I had hoped to open up a discussion on the Engelhard issue before adjournment so that a resolution acceptable to most representatives could be worked out before the Assembly recessed. The person who had moved to recess was not aware of my concern for concensus and thought that the three hour-long meeting would drag on even longer since no specific resolution had been prepared...
...Curtis did not see the vote to recess Thursday night as an attempt by the Student Assembly to delay taking a stand on an issue related to South Africa, then he is in sharp disagreement with many representatives who attended the meeting. The main argument offered for recessing was that the assembly was not yet prepared to take a stand. Many representatives said the assembly should recess, allow its representatives to talk to their constituents, and then consider the issue...
Already, a split is emerging between the radicals and the purists over how to deal with the South Africa issue. The first clear instance of this split occurred at the second assembly meeting when representatives voted to recess instead of taking a stand on the Engelhard issue. During the debate the purists said taking such a stand before consulting with students would contradict what the assembly stood for, while the radicals stressed that a time factor was involved because of the demonstration at the Kennedy School. The vote to recess passed nonetheless, angering many of the radicals. However, the meeting...