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...John R. Seeley, chairman of the Sociology department, whose memo on grades and the draft precipitated the campus debate, said at a press conference after the meetings, "I don't believe the university can survive any more intrusion by the military...
...research and participate in this crazy experiment," as Deputy Director Walter Wiggins puts it. But just as much, the Corps feels the universities need the Corps. The Corps and the educators who work closely with it are commited to a fusion of education and work. "Their separation," says John Seeley chairman of the department of Sociology at Brandeis, "is a post-Renaissance heresy. The sickness of education and the sickness of enterprise consist in their separation...
...memo, Seeley declared that if professors continued to grade students and allow the grades to be published, "we are perhaps as proximate as whoever in Nazi Germany 'objectively' determined the fraction of a man's an cestry that was 'Jewish...
...possible solutions, Seeley wrote: "We might refuse to be professors under such an invasion or misuse of our role. We might cease to grade at all (except privately for information for each student) or we might grade every one equally high...
...Seeley sent copies of his memo to Dean Monro and David Riesman '31. Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Monro said yesterday that the report "raised questions that ought to be asked," but continued, "if it's appropriate for the Selective Service to request such information then it's appropriate for us to respond...