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...issue caught the Faculty by surprise and the long, spontaneous debate which followed was exceptional--as was the close 88-62 vote by which the Faculty decided not to ask Dow for a postponement. The surprise was unavoidable; President Pusey received SFAC's recommendation early last week and decided to bring it to the Faculty after dockets for the meeting had been printed and mailed. More Faculty members would have come if they knew Dow was going on the agenda, but most of the additional votes would probably have been against postponement. The group that did vote was closely enough...
Pusey's decision to bring the Dow question to the Faculty sets a significant precedent for the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. The SFAC resolution addressed to him and the Corporation, went to the wrong place, Pusey told the Faculty Tuesday. Asking Dow to stay off campus was not properly Corporation business. Pusey explained. Since SFAC was created by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences all its resolutions should pass through that Faculty...
...Council has throughly discussed but not resolved a third matter that many SFAC members consider important--the October memorandum of Selective Service Director General Lewis B. Hershey Jr. Norman Diamond, a graduate representative, wanted to link the memo to the Vietnam War and oppressive nature of the Selective Service System. When he called for the banning of military recruitment on campus in light of those policies, the resolution was voted down...
Still on the SFAC floor is a motion by Martin H. Peretz, instructor in Social Studies. Peretz also asks for the banning of military recruiting at Harvard but his motion, unlike Diamond's attacks the Hershey directive directly and asks for the ban "until the threat to our students by General Hershey is lifted...
...Council to win or hold the respect of those who are most concerned about the issues the Council was set up to discuss, SFAC will have to start discussing those issues...