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Several professors-including those who had said before the meeting that the Faculty should consider the resolution at an informal convocation or during a recess-said during the debate that the Faculty should not vote on "political" issues at its formal meeting...
Then Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, moved that the Faculty recess for 15 minutes. His motion failed by one vote...
Even yesterday, however, much of the political action swung on key blunders. The main question of the day-whether the anti-war vote would come in the meeting or in a recess or convocation-was decided by a margin of one vote, 214-215. At least ten Faculty members said after the meeting that they did not understand what was going on at the time the motion to recess came...
...voting on Lipset's motion for recess-which failed by only one vote-was confused. Both proponents and opponents of formally approving the withdrawal resolution inadvertently found themselves voting the wrong...
...Those backing the withdrawal motion then benefitted from a parliamentary foul-up. Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, ver-bally stumbled as he moved that the Faculty recess to a convocation in effect that they not vote as an official body on Vietnam...