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...know that: it is not essential to spend half the day hating the HSA; there is never any reason in the world to go into Lamont Library; it doesn't make any difference which, Harvard House gives us shelter; it is not important which faction won at the SDS national convention; it does nothing for us to know that being a senior means easy admittance to some courses...
...traditional dichotomy between scholarly endeavors and "extra-curricular" activities was breaking down. The puppy dog student government that arranged mixers and fought for parietal liberalization was becoming more political as students joined SDS rather than the Young Dems. The War had come to Harvard. And the Dow incident in the Fall of '67 turned student anti-war rage in on the University itself...
...junior members. Order and structure were breaking down, the professors felt. People were demanding a Faculty steering committee and even students on Faculty committees. In addition, and perhaps most alarming to them, some professors, particularly Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy and the Faculty's lone wolf member of SDS, were making unheard-of-demands on political issues, like the War and racism at Harvard...
WITH the schism between Faculty members widening, the growth of the caucuses during the Spring crisis seems not only logical but necessary. By taking over University Hall in the Spring of 1969, SDS had forced the Faculty hand on ROTC. By calling in the police, Pusey forced the issue of Faculty power. While conservatives pooh-poohed the existence of an administration separate from the Faculty, President Pusey and his Council of Deans had shown it not only existed but could act powerfully and autonomously...
Individual Faculty members from both the right and the left were beginning to stake out their own territories in Faculty meetings. Hilary Putnam was the SDS man on the Faculty, Martin L. Kilson, Professor of Government, was the Young People's Socialist League representative: Mendelsohn, a young political mover named Mark Ptashne, lecturer in Biology, and George Wald. Higgins Professor of Biology, became the Moratorium spokesmen...