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Nobody knows how to oppose the war effectively. To try to force an artificial confrontation between Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, and the Marine Corps is not an answer. But because the war has thrust itself into every part of American life, one grabs onto every opportunity to fight and every symbol of opposition. Each symbol is inadequate, but each one becomes important. Last week Olimpieri was important...
...Stendahl, for his part deciding that he would "rather be wise and sensitive than clear," remained neutral during the sanctuary. It is Stendahl's first year as dean of the Divinity School, and he was certainly correct to avoid a rash statement of policy--whether favorable or unfavorable to the sanctuary. By doing so, he would have seemed emotional and impulsive and done a serious disservice to the Divinity School and to himself. Stendahl's single positive decision, to appoint a six-member faculty committee to serve as liaison with the students, was also correct...
...stopped there, and he shouldn't have. At the time of his appointment last January, Stendahl said he hoped to see the Divinity School "become sensitive" to the injustices of society. During the two days of Paul Olimpieri's sanctuary, however, Stendahl refused to confront those injustices. He was under no obligation either to defend or to oppose the politics of Olimpieri's action; but without a word about politics, without a word about the war, and without a word about the Divinity School's stand on draft resistance, Stendahl could have responded to the situation...
...this Colloquium, Stendahl stated his "intention to invite during the spring, representatives from the various segments of this University, the governing boards, administration and students, faculty and Buildings and Grounds, the University Police and the Health Service...
...faculty-student committee at the Divinity School will be set up to plan the Colloquium, but Dean Stendahl, who was in Chicago yesterday, has not yet announced the committee members...