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Addressing its statement to "moderates on the Harvard campus." the Harvard Young Republican Club expressed support of the Moratorium "insofar as it expresses discontent with the war," while opposing the official closing of the University on the grounds that "the right to protest implies a right not to protest...
Harvard SDS-whose philosophy is based on that of the Worker-Student Alliance-strongly opposed the Moratorium "for creating illusions about whom we ally, whit" by seeking Faculty and Administrative support. "When you issue statements that appeal to the lowest common denominator you don't advice the struggle," Jay Sergeant, a regional SDS member, explained. "Groups like the have killed the anti-war movement in the past; they see these demonstrations in them sleeves as solutions, and think it's enough to act only once every six months...
...November Action Committee (NAC), a loose coalition of radicals grown out of last year's New Left, will probably abide by the Moratorium, one spokesman said, "but organizationally will ignore it." "This is no way to end the war," he added. "You can get the whole Senate behind it and nothing will happen. You can even get Nixon reading a statement condemning this and all wars and it won't make any difference. This war is about real things going on, we need to positively support...
Although the Law School faculty did not vote on a resolution concerning the Moratorium, individual faculty members are free to cancel their classes. An informal poll of faculty members there indicates that very few will hold class...
Graduate School student and faculty members are making preparations for anti-war activity during the Oct. 15 Vietnam Moratorium...