Word: sfac
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Rogers Albritton, professor of Philosophy, introduced the resolution and Handlin was the main speaker against it. Both are SFAC members. They presented a series of arguments that had surfaced in the Advisory Council's two-month discussion of recruitment...
...debate centered, though, on SFAC's third clause which would have barred an organization from recruiting at Harvard if one fifth of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates petitioned to keep the company off and 50 per cent of SFAC confirmed the request...
Edwin E. Moise, James B. Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics, spoke in favor of the SFAC proposal. He said that the scheme was "an ingenious way of saying to students that we take the issue and them seriously." To have barred Dow would have been untenably selective, Moise argued, but he said that by voting down the resolution the Faculty "would be saying that who comes on campus is none of our business...
...vote against SFAC's plan for limiting recruitment was four or five to one, Dean Ford said last night. A voice vote was decisive enough so that numbers on each side were not counted...
With another loud voice vote, the Faculty voted down a motion to table the rest of SFAC's scheme and went on to adopt...