FACULTY MEETING

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Because yesterday's special meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was called in response to unprecedented student action, we feel that our sense of that meeting, which is not registered in its simple endorsement of the disciplinary decisions of the Administrative Board, should be made known to the wider community.

The motion that was passed expresses the fact that the Faculty does not condone tactics of demonstration in this community which violate the civil rights of individuals. But as members of the Faculty who have been deeply impressed by the responsible and democratic conduct of our students on such occasions, for example, as the meeting in Lowell Lecture Hall on Monday evening, it seems to us urgent and proper to report our sense that among most of those present at our meeting yesterday there was a clear feeling that the issues raised by the protest at Mallinckrodt go beyond the matter of tactics and that the students involved are right in believing that these issues require full and open discussion.

It is our understanding that at the end of yesterday's meeting, in reply to strongly expressed Faculty sentiment, there was a definite commitment to insure that such discussion, in which the student body is to be fully represented ,shall take place. Rogers Albritton, Professor of Philosophy   Stanley Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value   Erik H. Erikson, Professor of Human Development and Lecturer on Psychiatry   John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics   Stanley Hoffmann, Professor of Government   Alex Inkeles, Professor of Sociology and Senior Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center   Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics   John Rawls, Professor of Philosophy   George Wald, Professor of Biology   Laurence Wylie, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France