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Newman's announcement-made at yesterday's Faculty meeting-was part of an agreement he had worked out with two Faculty members opposed to the Cambridge Project: Herbert C. Kelman, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, and Mark Ptashne, lecturer on Blochemistry and Molecular Biology...
...part, Kelman-who followed Newman as a speaker at yesterday's meeting-agreed to withdraw a resolution against official Harvard participation in the Cambridge Project which he had planned to introduce at the meeting. "Now that the request for institutional participation has been withdrawn," Kelman told the Faculty, "we are prepared to withdraw our resolution-not because most of our reservations about the Cambridge Project have been answered, but because the resolution has become moot...
Anthony G. Oettinger '51, professor of Linguisties and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, took the floor shortly afterwards and accused Newman, Kelman, and Ptashne of having made "an obscene deal: they have managed to sweep under the rug a number of important issues raised by the Cambridge Project...
...Oettinger was a member of the majority of a Faculty subcommittee which recommended that Harvard join M.I.T. as an institutional sponsor of the Cambridge Project. Kelman was in the minority on that subcommittee...
...Kelman and Ptashne focused their criticism of the Cambridge Project on its Defense Department sponsorship. "It is the function of the University-and especially of its social scientists-," Kelman argued, "to engage in independent critical analysis of the society, including the role of the military within that society. There is some concern that commitments on the order of the Cambridge Project would weaken the University's capacity for such independent analysis...