Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have in no way 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...
...hundred seventy-five educators from the Boston area discussed methods of teaching about the Vietnam war at a conference held Saturday at Larsen and Longfellow Halls. The conference was necessary to "try to prevent another war," said Bernard Huebner, one of the project's organizers...
...model class, consisting of sixteen area high school students, discussed a hypothetical dilemna of a soldier in Vietnam. Sent out on patrol, the soldier spots a peasant riding a bicycle in an area the villagers have been told is restricted. Since he appears to be innocent, though presumably he has been warned against entering the area, should the soldier shoot him, try to capture him, or disobey orders and ignore...
...future action, Huebner was undecided. He noted that educational methods, especially concerning something that changes as much as the Vietnam war, become outdated rapidly and a series of conferences is called for. However, the group is also sorely in need of clerical, and especially financial...
...following statement, taken from several speeches by Richard M. Nixon, represent his views on the War in Vietnam...