Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least to keep it that way. We had expected that the Peace Corps Administration would respect our opinions, but what we got when we suggested that we had been poorly assigned and that we knew a place where our talents could be better used, was an anxious mother-hen visit from the Assistant Peace Corps Director in Chile whose reaction to our situation was, "Maybe you aren't trying hard enough...
Last week, the Council, by a vote of 25 to 6, asked the Administration to postpone the February 23 recruiting visit of the Dow Chemical Corporation. But again the Council made no claim at having discussed the larger issues involved--recruiting policies or the "rights and modalities of student protest." The Council asked for the postponement until its members had had a chance to reach "common positions" on such issues...
Charles F. Sabel '69 threw out for consideration at last Tuesday's meeting the possibility that the Council might dissolve if Pusey took no action on postponing the Dow visit. Erik Erikson, professor of Human Development, speaking for the Dow motion at that meeting said that the Council was confronting the Administration by requesting a postponement. "We are asking why they established this Council and then ignore the very reason of this Council's existence," he said...
...rather disturbed to read of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council's resolution requesting the postponement of the scheduled (February 23) visit of the Dow Chemical Corporation. Whatever one's feelings about the war, the right of dissent, or the University's recruitment policy, this resolution seems defective on two grounds. First, it singles out one business corporation for special action while ignoring other corporations which recruit here and are also involved in the war effort. Second, it represents a partial prejudgment of the question of recruitment at Harvard at a time when the Council is just beginning to address itself...
Dedijer is being kept out of the U.S. under the Immigration and Naturality Act of 1952, which permits the exclusion of aliens who might "engage in activities...prejudicial to the public interest." A State Department official said recently that his visit was considered "untimely,"--translation: last summer Dedijer served as president of Bertrand Russell's war crimes tribunal, which condemned American actions in Vietnam...