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Second, it should be noted that on the specific issue of ROTC the Faculty had shown itself unusually responsive to student opinion. The ROTC issue was raised at student initiative. The Faculty has received resolutions from the SFAC and the HUC and also the excellent report of HRPC. At the same Faculty meeting when Professor Putnam spoke, Professor Albritton reported on the discussions of ROTC in SFAC and Professor Lipset recorded the views of YPSL, including the view that a college-wide referendum should be taken. Moreover, the ensuing Faculty discussion suggested that Faculty views on ROTC are quite close...
...this point was not argued. This is really the crux of the whole issue. The students who sat in almost totally ignored the avenues of orderly change presently available to them. If the key question was student participation in Faculty meetings, why was this question not raised with the SFAC which was created precisely to study and recommend on such matters? Why were student views on representation at Faculty meetings not developed, prepared and presented to the Faculty with the same care and reasoned argument that went into the various student presentations on ROTC? Why were the ordinary channels...
...Hoffmann made a number of additional points at great length: the creation of SFAC to expedite dialogue; the "new procedure on recruitment"; the willingness of the faculty to consider carefully the merits of open meetings. He attempts to present Harvard administration policy in terms of Marcuse's "repressive tolerance": call the demonstration "the most serious since I've been here" (Dean Ford), threaten unlimited punishment, and then sneer at the number of people who stayed. And finally, he attempts to pin our action on Hilary Putnam. That's pretty foul for a kindly uncle. Hutch Jenness...
...taken the Dow incident to get Student-Faculty Council established and a new procedure on recruitment adopted. This time, the docket of the Faulty consisted of resolutions which al reflected student opinions or resulted from student-faculty discussions. Supporters of the SDS position had freely argued their case with SFAC, and a similar resolution was before the Faculty. This time, it could not be said that University passivity had forced the students to act; it was the move of some students which prevented the Faculty from acting...
Roberts only announced the final totals of the three official SFAC candidates on the ballot since the Council has not yet decided whether to announce the write in votes. The totals were: John F. Gillespie, 329; Joseph B. Gurman, 324; and Michael L. Ryan...