Word: sfac
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...Chemistry Department faculty agreed on October 1 to follow a recruitment procedure "consonant with the faculty resolution," according to Konrad E. Bloch, chairman of the Chemistry Department Graduate school and research centers had been specifically excluded from the SFAC recruiting resolution passed last spring by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...SFAC resolution forced a company to defend its policies in a public meeting if 500 undergraduates asked it to do so, but under the Chemistry Department proposal only ten per cent of the 300 graduate students in chemistry needed to ask for the confrontation...
...About half of our members are former members of SFAC, PBH, the Freshman Council, or other organizations," Frank D. Raines '71, one of the Union's founders, said yesterday. "What we hope to do is thoroughly research issues, present a position on them, and then try to implement our proposals through the most effective channels...
Raines said that once the HPU has taken a stand on an issue they try to go about implementing their position in the best possible way. This might include lobbying for faculty support, testifying before the HUC or SFAC, or even demonstrations, he said...
Take away the hawkish bombast, and Pell might have a point--if there really were a movement here to drive ROTC from the campus. But the HUC, HPC, and SFAC, the three student organizations at work on the issue, seem unlikely to recommend that the University sever all relations with ROTC. It would be hard to argue that the student who wants to join an officer's training program should not be allowed to do so. But it is just as indefensible to maintain, as Col. Pell by implication does, that Harvard should be in the business of steering...