Between the two Soldiers’ Field meetings, a massive student defection from the SDS position took place. In part, the call to discontinue the strike sprang from weariness and the fear of academic abortion that haunts all of us. Yet it is important to realize that there was a definite element of political rationality in the […]
Tag: 1968
Toward An Ethic of Political Conduct
Any system of political ethics has two functions. 1) To serve as a guide for one’s personal political conduct and 2) to enable one to consider the actions of political bodies, governments, in the past or the present, which in turn would have implications for individual behavior. Max Weber, in his fundamental essay, “Politics as […]
Wilson Reports to SFAC; Watson Writes ‘Apologies’
James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and head of the University Committee on Cambridge community relations, yesterday outlined some of the themes of his committee’s investigations at his appearance before the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. At the same meeting a reply from Dean Watson to the SFAC’s request that he explain his remarks about “sons of […]
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Back to the Basics-Theoretics
There are different definitions of “class” in political theory. My prefered one is that a class is determined by its objective material conditions. Thus, depending on the kind of house you live in and the amount of money you have to spend on food you are a member of a certain class. The potential difficulty […]
A Radical Vision
RADICALS view American society as being dominated by a relatively small group of people–an elite, more or less tightly co-ordinated, that benefits considerably from the present system. Under this upper crust lies a vast semi-oppressed white lumpenproletariat and a clearly oppressed black proletariat. Such an analysis of the situation leads a radical to the conclusion […]
James Wilson Will Speak At Today’s SFAC Meeting
James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and head of the University Committee on Cambridge community relations, has agreed to meet with the Student-Faculty Advisory Council today. The meeting will be open to the public and is scheduled for 4 p.m. at the Winthrop House junior common room. SFAC members had expressed a desire to exchange […]
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Council Asks Explanation From Watson
The Student-Faculty Advisory Council yesterday asked Dean Watson to explain his recent statements that a small group of radicals is behind most serious student unrest at Harvard. The council voted 22-3, with two abstentions, to ask Watson to “prepare for this body an explanation of the statements attributed to him in the October 1 CRIMSON.” […]
SFAC Meets To Consider Vote Change
The Student Faculty Advisory Committe will consider a change in its membership at its first meeting of the academic year today. The committee, set up last year in the wake of the Dow demonstration, will meet at 3 p.m. in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. The student members of the SFAC were elected by […]
The Old Mole
IN AN ARTICLE entitled ‘Sexual Role Exploitation,’ in the first issue of The Old Mole, the writer suggests that one way of restoring dignity to male-female relationships is to have girls pay their own expenses when they go out with boys. This idea is sensible since it would assure that girls would go out only […]
The Digger Papers
The magazine, The Realist, made its name ten years ago (didn’t know it was going that long did you?) as a scurrilous irreverent underground rag. In its latest issue though, Paul Krassner, the organization’s guiding light, has turned to the more elevated purpose of spreading the hippies good word. The diggers, that nimble group of […]