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Last Thursday's article about my study of Harvard students omitted some important information I gave to the CRIMSON. I did say that the leaflet by "some members of SDS" opposing the research was insulting, but I indicated greater concern for a matter of principle that was not mentioned in the article...
...members of SDS who wrote the leaflet could have urged students to refuse cooperation with my study on ethical grounds. They could have argued, first, that as a political movement SDS seeks to conceal certain information about its tactics and successes (or failures), and, second, that it values political ends more than scholarly ends. Such a statement would have raised the larger issue of whether social science can coexist with social change. This problem will cause much reflection about the aims and methods of social science, and discussion of it in no way challenges academic freedom. But when the issues...
...should note that as of this writing, just under half of the students who received my questionnaire have completed and returned it. A few respondents, but only a handful, have indicated that they are members of SDS. In other words, the leaflet has done only negligible damage to my study. I mention this in order to emphasize that I am more concerned with the principle of academic freedom than with the effect of the leaflet on my research. Marshall W. Meyer Lecturer on Sociology
...GREEN shares Finch's belief that federal interference will only further tie the hands of college administrators trying to deal with disorder. She expressed the opinion that SDS will interpret measures like Harsha's as a challenge to prolong confrontations...
...Alumni Bulletin knows its audience. Bethell dwells on appearances, knowing what will excite his readers. The SDS flag flies out a University Hall window; Chase Peterson eats lunch at the Tasty (fine man!); Dean Ford's 4:30 p.m. warning is met with cries of "All right, Dean Ford"; four picture show (gasp) litter all over the floor of the empty building after the bust. The inflammatory quote. "Bullshit," shouted a girl. "What the fuck do you know about it?" said a girl. (A girl!) "Fuck Harvard." (Harvard...