Word: teach-in
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...Administration's caution toward the medium is understandable and so is its unwillingness to set down a dogma on what can and cannot be televised. But by retaining the shaky criterion of "balance," the University has left itself open to a repeat of the flap over January's teach-in along with the inevitable charges of censorship when a particular event is declared to be "unbalanced...
...University official hinted that the "balance" rule will not be enforced with mathematical precision. A Vietnam teach-in might be acceptable if for every speaker advocating immediate withdrawal another supported a less radical solution. Or "balance" could mean a question period to insure that the televised event did not turn into an uninterrupted harangue...
...significantly departed from the Ivory Tower of the past. Only instead of an Ivory Tower, the university's protective wall is called "value-freedom." "Technology," Harvard's President explains, "cannot be used to support an opinion." Hence television is not used to broadcast a recent Vietnam teach-in. (How the dissemination of opinions differs from the dissemination of information is left unexplained, unless one assumes that the teach-in was totally devoid of any information whatsoever.) The renunciation of social obligation is the same; the harm wreaked is infinitely worse. Value freedom allows one to wallow in the mud without...
...University with a controversial view was what we found objectionable in the decision of Pusey and the Corporation not to let the Harvard University Press publish J. D. Watson's The Double Helix. And we earlier objected to the University's refusal to allow WGBH to cover a Vietnam teach-in in January...
Preliminary plans instead called for a teach-in on University complicity on February 22, and a protest rally in front of Massachusetts Hall, where President Pusey has his office, during the Dow interview...