Word: moratorium
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...Moratorium is not considered today. Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of History of Science, said he will ask the Faculty to call a special meeting for October...
...letter was circulated this week among Faculty members, urging support for the Moratorium, which calls for a nation-wide halt to normal activities on October 15 to support an early...
...motion to consider the Moratorium is not on the docket for today and four-fifths of the Faculty would have to agree to discuss it. The Faculty rarely does this. A more likely possibility, according to Dean Ford, is that the Faculty will agree to call a special meeting. A simple majority is required to take such an action...
Dean May expressed yesterday some reservation about the Moratorium. "The analogy I would use is Yom Kippur," he said. "There are people in the community whose conscience moves them not to take part in the University on a particular day. The Faculty ought to respect the conscientious beliefs of those who want to observe that day. I must confess being a little uneasy about the form of the Moratorium because it involves a suspension of the educational process...
...Dean Ford made a similar analogy between the Moratorium and religious holidays, but said that some Faculty members wanted to take no action on the Moratorium while others favored the formal cancellation of all University classes...