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...their present form, but instead to refer them back to the Faculty for whatever additional work and discussion is required to make them usable as a basis for further action. This course would occasion loud squeals; but there are two things to be said for it. First, the SFAC resolution was badly drafted--and I know that at least some of the Faculty members who voted for its were aware of its imprecision. Second, because of this bad drafting, we are left with no reliable notion as to how many members voted on the basis of vague emotionalism...
There was no steering committee of the group, and Kenneth M. Glazier '69, former chairman of SFAC, was the only student to make any public statements...
...Terminate all ROTC contracts with the Defense Department and make no new contracts. The present contractual arrangement for the training of officers here constitutes, as President Pusey indicated during his appearance before the SFAC last month, support for the U.S. military and the policies which it carries out. Harvard should not support these policies, and therefore should make no contracts which commit the University to supporting them...
...independent statement, the House Committee of Kirkland House issued a statement condemning the President and deans as "irresponsible because they didn't wait for a moderate alternative to develop," according to Leo J. Corbett '70, chairman of the Kirkland House Committee. Corbett said the HRPC-SFAC-HUC meeting scheduled for 10 a.m. yesterday was evidence that such an alternative was developing...
This was a predictable mistake. It reflected the Corporation's preoccupation with financial concerns and its attendant political conservatism and somewhat self-interested patriotism. President Pusey's recent appearance before SFAC and the Corporation's response to the Faculty's ROTC resolution are only the most recent examples of a viewpoint that is now not only constricting but, in the context of the times, inflammatory...