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...Richard Lyman never wavered. As a historian, he had organized one of the country's first Viet Nam teach-ins. But as Stanford's vice president and provost, he put the university's survival first. After the invasion of Cambodia last spring, Lyman sent a personal telegram to President Nixon decrying the move, then opposed halting classes in support of the student strike. He was overruled by the faculty. He also called the police after students occupied an administration building to protest the university's war-related research. Said he: "We seek a victory of reason...
Politically, Cross is considered non-political, but liberal. He signed the university presidents' telegram to President Nixon last Spring and was the only college administrator named to the American Association of University Professors committee investigating the Kent State and Jackson State murders...
Pusey replied to McCarthy's telegram on November 9. So far as he knew, Pusey said, there were no Communists on the Harvard faculty. And he could promise no further action against Furry...
PUSEY MEANWHILE tried to make it clear that he was no friend of Communism, and that there were no Communists at Harvard. His November 9 telegram to McCarthy included the assurance that he was "in full agreement with the opinion... that a member of the Communist party is not fit to be on the Faculty because he has not the necessary independence of thought and judgment...
Last year, two radical candidates-author Noman K. Mailer '43 and SDS member Henry Norr '68-ran for Overseer using the petition route. Despite a widely publicized campaign, including a telegram from Mailer to Pusey on the morning of the April 10 police raid on University Hall, both were defeated by conventional nominees...