Word: voting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this juncture, however, it may be unwise for the Faculty to carry out a vote that may be interpreted as an invasion without precedent into the scholarly prerogatives of some faculty members who could rightly argue that equivalent commitments have been made in other areas without provoking such a judgment in an open Faculty meeting...
...part, the Rev. Hanson pressed forward his campaign and launched a formal complaint with the Board of Directors of School Administrative District 44, which has jurisdiction over Telstar High. The Board voted sixteen to one to appoint an investigating committee. The sole dissenter, Richard Davis, based his vote on his blanket opposition to all kinds of censorship, adding that he had read the material in question and found it "in line with the literature being published today...
...other fact was the inclusion in our report of an unanimous recommendation that the Faculty refrain from voting on the report. Clearly, the minority, all of whom joined in his view, believed that a higher issue was at stake than an opportunity to win in the Faculty a majority that it could not win in the Committee. My impression is that this higher issue was the recognition that a number of important and complex principles were bound together in Project Cambridge and that a simple vote would not reveal which principles were being supported and which were being rejected...
Rather than a vote, with its inevitably ambiguous interpretations, considered statements on the floor of the Faculty meeting or in letters to the President would seem to be a more appropriate and more useful form of faculty expression and advice. In this way each interested person could indicate what policy consideration he believed to be decisive...
...Last year the tactics of a belligerent minority led the faculty to vote, under duress, to eliminate ROTC at Harvard. That vote should be reconsidered." the VAF statement said. "Individuals should have the opportunity and the right to choose whether or not participation in ROTC is moral and advantageous...