Word: hoffmann
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...happier results of the attempt to hold an open faculty meeting in Paine Hall is that the "moderate" positions on ROTC have been brought out for public view. Professor Stanley Hoffmann, who gave no sign at Paine Hall that he had other reservations about the abolition of ROTC than a fear of faculty backlash, now states that "I recognize the right of students to pursue military preparation as one extra-curicular activity among others." In other words, he would rather not have to deal with military men as colleagues, but they have a right to go about their business...
...those whom "respectable moral convictions" lead to support the war can justify armed conflict, on the basis of just what abstract principle should those of us who oppose the war be satisfied with a "long and thorough debate?" Furthermore, a debate with such as Hoffmann, who represent SDS as narrowmindedly concentrating on Vietnam...
...Hoffmann made a number of additional points at great length: the creation of SFAC to expedite dialogue; the "new procedure on recruitment"; the willingness of the faculty to consider carefully the merits of open meetings. He attempts to present Harvard administration policy in terms of Marcuse's "repressive tolerance": call the demonstration "the most serious since I've been here" (Dean Ford), threaten unlimited punishment, and then sneer at the number of people who stayed. And finally, he attempts to pin our action on Hilary Putnam. That's pretty foul for a kindly uncle. Hutch Jenness...
Professor Stanley Hoffmann is right in suggesting that debate over how to punish the demonstrators is a waste of time delaying Faculty consideration of real issues like R.O.T.C. and student representation. But one trusts that he is wrong in claiming that the Paine Hall demonstration has lessened the chances of reforming the R.O.T.C program or changing the way Faculty business is conducted. It is hard to conceive of the Faculty's deciding these issues on the basis of petulance rather than reason. One trusts too, that the Faculty will handle the smaller issue of punishment with proper care, and that...
...outrageous that one group believes that it has the truth," Hoffmann said. "This is something that can be settled only by rational debate and not by one group," he added. Hoffmann condemned the sit-in as an "intolerable form of pressure." He said that the "clock has been turned back," because of the sit-in, adding that proposals for student representation would have been introduced at the Faculty meeting...