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Harvard will not join M.I.T. as an institutional sponsor of the Defense Department-funded Cambridge Project.
Edwin B. Newman, professor of Psychology and chairman of the Harvard participants in the Project, yesterday withdrew the request of the Project's Harvard-M.I.T. advisory board to President Pusey for the appointment of Harvard representatives to the official Project policy board. Newman had consulted with 10 of the...
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.
For his 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 "Now that the request for institutional participation has been withdrawn," Kelman told the Faculty...
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."