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Members of the caucus were united by several mutual concerns: Faculty meetings had gotten immensely larger, growing from an average of 200 persons per meeting to 400, and the influx was mainly of junior members. Order and structure were breaking down, the professors felt. People were demanding a Faculty steering committee and even students on Faculty committees. In addition, and perhaps most alarming to them, some professors, particularly Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy and the Faculty's lone wolf member of SDS, were making unheard-of-demands on political issues, like the War and racism at Harvard...
Then 1969, Yovicsin had gotten a bit older in recent years, and the enthusiasm which had so characterized him at first, had faded a bit. He and Cramer could not fire up the team, and the material never gelled. Even Yovicsin's heart was telling him that it was about time to do something else...
Yovicsin has earned much of the derision he's received in the last year or so. It seems that the talented players he has helped make so matter-of-fact around here have helped cover up some of his other failings in recent years. But Yovicsin's probably gotten more criticism than he deserves...
...first concert, the organizers had gotten a pledge from the police that they would not come into the Stadium unless requested to do so. On June 23, when the Band came to Cambridge to play on the futuristic sound stage erected in the south end zone, the only security forces in the Stadium were hired guards wearing red T-shirts stenciled with peace symbols. At two dollars a throw and no reserved seats, the concerts were not exorbitant; but a lot of people got in free anyway. Half an hour before the concerts began the red ropes indicating authorized seating...
...problems of pollution possibly be solved without getting rid of chemical companies that continually lie about the effects of their product, and who, when forbidden to sell them in America, rush off with them to the Third World? And the chemical companies won't really like being gotten rid of, and they have many friends, many more than...