5 on Faculty Will Conduct Viet Teach-in

An all-night discussion and debate on the war in Vietnam has been scheduled for Wednesday in Lowell Lecture Hall.

Sponsored by faculty from Harvard M.I.T., B.U., Tufts, Northeastern, Simmons, and Brandeis the discussion will feature a multitude of professors from the Boston area, presenting and discussing their views on the Vietnam war from 7 p.m. Wednesday until 3 a.m. Thursday.

Speaking in the program will be John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, Benjamir I. Schwartz '33, professor of History and Government, and Samuel P. Huntington professor of Government.

Professors Lucian Pye and Philip & Morrison from M.I.T., and Professor Sumner Rosen from Simmons will also speak at the gathering.

Although modeled after a series of "teach-ins" at Columbia, the University of Michigan, and the University of Massachusetts, the project here has taken a far more moderate tone. Leaders of a faculty committee sponsoring the discussion have dropped the "teach-in" handle, and stress the "multi-partisan" nature of the evening.

The sponsors of the program say they hope "to provide an expert background on Vietnam, to analyze the policies being pursued by the involved countries, and to assess the alternatives--diplomatic and military."

Officials of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society, who originally thought of a teach-in at Harvard to rally support for the next Saturday's protest march in Washington, and suggested the idea to faculty members, did not seem disturbed at the non-partisan aspect of Wednesday's meeting. "The straight facts ought to convince people to be on our side," one said.

The program Wednesday will consist of half-hour speeches by each of the participants, with a question-and-answer period after each speech.