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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Student Council's protest is even more outlandish. Its resolution held that the Navy Department was "not entitled to make a judgement as to whether the riots were communist-instigated or not, since no legal verdict has even been rendered on that question." The statement also criticized the NROTC for requiring students to see a film "that does not in any way reflect the views of the students or faculty insofar as it purports to be historic fact rather than political interpretation." Since when do professors or departments have to clear their views with their students? Since when...
Members of the two extravagant Houses held whispered conferences in the corners of Lamont all day yesterday in an effort to prevent the impending lighting crisis. John M. Bullitt '42, Master of Quincy, stood on tiptoe in students' rooms to unscrew light bulbs, hoping to save lighting expenses through lack of illumination...
...first place, the Council held, the Department is "not entitled to make a judgment as to whether the riots were communist-instigated or not, since no legal verdict has ever been rendered on that question...
...weeks gangs of students have stormed the National Assembly in an attempt to force passage of laws inflicting retroactive punishment on ex-officials of the Rhee government. When not careening through the streets of Seoul in commandeered Jeeps, giving orders by loudspeaker to the legislature, the students have held massive rallies urging unification with Communist North Korea in a single, neutral state...
...Furthermore, a Puerto Rican Catholic might believe that voting for the P.D.P. was a political matter outside the realm of faith and morals, and considered the bishops' letters merely advisory exhortations. In that case, if the voter has considered carefully and acted in good faith, he can be held sinless in respect to the vote. A top Vatican official explained the fine distinction: "Bishops are mortals and can be mistaken. And if the bishops are wrong in this case, then the voter in good faith has not sinned by voting, but he has sinned in disobeying his bishop...