Word: ypsl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raised at student initiative. The Faculty has received resolutions from the SFAC and the HUC and also the excellent report of HRPC. At the same Faculty meeting when Professor Putnam spoke, Professor Albritton reported on the discussions of ROTC in SFAC and Professor Lipset recorded the views of YPSL, including the view that a college-wide referendum should be taken. Moreover, the ensuing Faculty discussion suggested that Faculty views on ROTC are quite close to representative student opinions, certainly much closer than are those of SDS. This is simply not a case of students holding one view and the Faculty...
...listened to speakers from the HUC, the SFAC and the HPC defend their organizations' proposals for a reduction in the status of ROTC which would nonetheless allow the units to remain on campus in some form. Speakers from SDS argued that Harvard should abolish ROTC outright, while representatives of YPSL supported a student referendum on the question, as has been suggested by Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
David Guberman '71, a member of YPSL, called the SDS plan to ban ROTC from Harvard "anti-democratic and anti-civil-libertarian." Answering charges that the YPSL referendum proposal is unacceptable because it does not include a choice of complete abolition of ROTC, Guberman said that "such a position does not deserve to be on the ballot. It is a fundamental characteristic of a civil liberty," he continued, "that if it is subject to a vote, it is not a civil liberty...
Another backer of the YPSL referndum plan, Henry D. Fetter '71, said that a confrontation similar to the Dow demonstration of last year could result if student opinion is not channeled into peaceful means of expression. He concluded with a prediction that "democracy will prevail...
...referendum proposal was criticized by several other speakers, however. Kenneth M. Glazier '69, a member of the SFAC, argued that the YPSL referendum was unsatisfactory because it excluded the SDS petition and because it was not to be binding on the Faculty. Glazier also said that such referenda tend to undermine the various representative organizations at Harvard...