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...writing in response to Mr. Peter Shane's article, "Harvard and the BU Five" in his column, "All That's Left", in the Harvard Crimson of Wednesday, October 3, 1973. There are a number of errors of fact and interpretation that require correction...
First, Mr. Shane suggests that the disciplinary codes presently in effect at Boston University were "muscled through" by BU President, John Silber, and that Silber has total control over the procedures in the codes. This is simply untrue. The resolution calling for the provisional codes was called for by the BU Faculty Senate Council, a faculty group representing the entire BU Faculty. Further, the committee that drafted the language of the codes was not as Mr. Shane said, "a Silber appointed committee". Of the nine members of the committee, the three administration members were appointed by President Silber...
Later in his column, Shane says that president Silber had a secret poll on R.O.T.C. when, in fact, it was a highly publicized poll but undertaken with the well known procedure called a secret ballot. A secret ballot does not make a secret poll. Finally in regard to this question of administration--faculty relations, Shane writes, "BU's faculty lacks the power and cohesiveness necessary to determine the fate of a BU president". Whatever this phrase means, it is not the case that President Silber and the Faculty at BU are in disagreement over the issues of military recruitment, R.O.T.C...
...following report was prepared by Crimson staff members Amanda P. Bennett, Robin Freedberg, Geoffrey D. Garin, Seth M. Kupferberg, H. Jeffrey Leonard, Richard J. Meislin, Mark J. Penn, Dale S. Russakoff, and Peter M. Shane...
...ROTC issue literally ripped the University apart in 1969, and although the wounds healed, the scars remained. So when President Bok remarked to the Alumni Association at Commencement that ROTC could be brought back, student activists reacted quickly. Peter Shane explains the current status of ROTC and the pros and cons of a ROTC program. Both articles start on page...