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Speculation about such a meeting followed Tuesday's Faculty decision to table a motion that condemned student deferments as "unjust." On a 141-88 vote, the Faculty cut off all discussion of the issue immediately after the anti-2-S resolution had been formally introduced...
...this Faculty should debate political issues of this kind as a corporate body," he said in a statement. "Such debate would lead to the politicization of the University, with great damage to its effectiveness as an institution of teaching and research." Landes agreed that the 2-S deferment is unjust, but said that the proper way to protest it "is to write or speak, personally or as a group, to the public authorities and to our representatives in the Congress...
Late Tuesday afternoon, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences met to consider a resolution offered by 16 professors that woudl have declared the 2-S deferment "unjust." Unfortunately, the Faculty--in its most highly attended meeting in years--did not get the chance to discuss the issue. Just after the resolution was introduced, Dean Ford recognized Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, who asked that the entire matter be tabled. Under parliamentary procedure, there is no debate on a motion to table. A vote was quickly taken, the motion was passed, and the Faculty left the meeting...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences will meet today to evaluate the 2-S student deferment. Sixteen professors will offer a resolution which, if passed, would declare the deferment an "unjust" system. The faculty must then decide whether it should submit its conclusions to the President's Commission now reviewing the Selective Service System...
...then, was unjust. The ensuing demonstration turned into something far more unruly than even it had planned. But the crowd of 800 students that jammed onto Mill St. was not a mob, even though the television reports and the wire service stories made it seem that way. Students were excited, and many of them were angry at each other. Yet they were never out of control. The Secretary was not in physical danger. He could have exchanged quips with the hecklers for as long as he wanted. No one was hurt. No one was arrested. And the little violence that...