Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the fleeting thought has passed through your mind that politics might be the liberation of everyone and everything and you discover it is still the raw and frightening war that Hobbes said it was three hundred years ago, that can be a frustrating experience. That can make you want to pick up the gun. Or become apolitical...
Mark Ptashne, lecturer in Biochemistry and sponsor of the resolution, said, "The liberal caucus overwhelmingly feels it is our right to take the strongest stand on the war possible...
George Wald. Higgins Professor of Biology and member of the liberal caucus, said, "Many members of the Faculty who are against the war don't like to see the Faculty voting as a Faculty on political issues. However, this is a rare and special political issue which affects the conduct of the University...
...issue now is whether the resolution would be voted on at the meeting or at an unofficial convocation. "I would like the Faculty to face this issue squarely," he said. "I want the Faculty to say as a Faculty that we can't operate as a University with this war-it does violence to all we stand...
Wald said he was withdrawing his motion asking the Faculty to petition for repeal of the draft: "The motions on the war are of overriding importance; the draft issue will come up later...