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...addition to these four motions, Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, said he may introduce a proposal backed by the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL) calling for a student referendum on ROTC's future...
...student groups that were not invited to the meeting--SDS and YPSL--yesterday objected to the student representation plan. SDS is calling for a protest march outside Sanders Theatre when the Faculty begins its meeting there at 3 p.m. today. But SDS members--who led the Dec. 12 sit-in that forced cancellation of the last Faculty meeting slated to discuss ROTC--say they do not plan to obstruct today's meeting...
...executive committee of YPSL last night released a statement asking that at least one student supporter of YPSL's referendum plan be admitted to the meeting. The statement claimed that the nine invited students "are not representative of the student body," and that YPSL's stand has "the most demonstrated support in the student body...
Lipset said yesterday that he is "fairly definite" in his plans to present his motion--the same one YPSL backs--today. But he may decide not to offer the motion if the Faculty seems ready to vote on one of the other proposals, he said...
...tactic was quickly imitated by another group, the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL). Claiming that the SDS petition "violated the civil liberties" of the students who wanted to participate in ROTC, the YPSL members proposed a student referendum on whether ROTC courses should have credit. The referendum would not be binding on the Faculty, and its alternatives would not include the SDS demand to expel ROTC. Like SDS, YPSL got a Faculty member to present its proposal at the Faculty meeting; Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government, revealed it would have a place on the Dec. 3 docket...