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...homilies out of a lopsided mouth and lopes around uncertainly like a plowboy stepping through a field of cow dung. He is a walking disaster area. When his drill sergeant chastises him for "taking the taxpayer's money without putting in a day's work," the hapless recruit returns part of his paycheck-and fouls up the bookkeeping system of the entire Marine Corps. Yet in the end, Gomer's goodness always wins out. He is, in short, an innocent out of step with the swinging '60s, which must explain why the Nielsens love...
...politically neutral in practice. At the present moment in the United States, law and order protects those who conduct, support, and profit from a war that more and more of us regard as atrociously cruel and strategically stupid. It protects the right of Dow Chemical and similar groups to recruit students for this general purpose. To a vastly lesser extent it also protects those of us who feel outraged by this situation. In effect we are told that we may protest as much as we like--as long as our protest remains ineffective or aims at token reforms such...
...certain viewpoints in this country would be suppressed. There has never been the slightest danger, in this or any other controversy, that the expression of the U.S. Administration's viewpoint would be suppressed. This would remain true whether or not Harvard University permitted supporters of the war machine to recruit on campus. Lisa Bieberman...
David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II professor of Social Sciences, questioned whether recruiting constituted free speech, and said it was wrong that Dow could recruit while SNCC and SDS could...
...overwhelming 88 per cent said all agencies should be permitted to recruit on campus, but that figure included 25 per cent who suggested Harvard privately discourage certain groups...