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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.
"The Defense Department issue is a red herring," Oettinger said last night. "Institutional participation in the Cambridge Project would not imply endorse-ment of the Defense Department, and there are other important issues involved in the Project."
Oettinger said that he "probably" will introduce a resolution at the next Faculty meeting-on February 10-"in order to allow the Faculty to consider the issue of institutional participation at greater depth."
Newman told the Faculty yesterday that official Harvard participation is not "essential to the operation of the Cambridge Project... [Harvard-M. L. T.] participation must be on an equal basis [but] we can set up machinery to do that without external authorization."
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...