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...statement warns that not all its signers accept all its provisions. Still, Professor Reischauer has lent his considerable prestige to a position that seems to us radically inconsistent with the views that he was endorsing only a few weeks ago as a sponsor of the petition of the Ad Hoc Committee on Vietnam...
...Hoc Committee's petition also urges de-escalation of the war. On this matter Professor Reischauer's in-consistency is somewhat less blatant, for the scholars' statement does include a suggestion that U.S. policy ought to "show a capacity for innovation of a de-escalatory nature." But Reischauer and friends are quick to reassure us that "such steps need not--indeed, should not--be massive." In fact, the only specific recommendation in the statement is that "an increasing emphasis must be placed upon 'seize and hold,' rather than 'search and destroy' operations." One wonders whether Professor Reischauer really believes that...
Finally, the Ad Hoc Committee's petition calls for the participation of the National Liberation Front in the future government of South Vietnam, while the Tuxedo Park delegation does not so much as hint at this possibility. The phrasing of the statement, in fact, leads one to suspect that in the eyes of its signers, communism is the worst of all evils, the elimination of which justifies almost any amount of cruelty: "putting the matter succinctly," they applaud American policy in Southeast Asia for having "bought time for some 200 million people to develop without their being ceaselessly confronted with...
...allow the "official" student government any meaningful, prestigious role, there now exist at Harvard a plethora of organizations all fulfilling functions which are in the domain of the student government at other institutions. These include House Committees, the Harvard Undergraduate Athletic Council, the Freshman Council, the CRIMSON, ad hoc committees such as the recently established Student-Faculty Advisory Council, PBH, SDS, YR's, YD's, and the Crimson Key. Some of the activities of these organizations must be consolidated by the HUC and HPC. This centralization will require major changes in the structure...
...alumnae who feel out of touch with students have turned to the administration, but have been disappointed. "I would hope that student opinion would go into planning for the College, but I'm afraid it hasn't," worried Mrs. Gray, who sat on the Ad Hoc Committee set up after the hunger strike...