(The CRIMSON has been asked to print the following letter, which is addressed to all students at Harvard and Radcliffe. --Ed.)
We as teaching members of the Harvard community are united with one another and with students in feeling the urgency of the need for co-operative action to improve Harvard--its instruction, its student life, its governance, its relation with the wider community. We feel that terrible mistake have been made, and that all of us have a responsibility to deal with their consequences.
We pledge to work so that the committee to be established in accordance with the vote of last Friday will be democratically elected, and that it will include faculty and students as full voting members. We further pledge that it will begin its work at once, not only to study, but also to recommend action upon the substantive issues raised by various members of the University community. Among these issues are: the status of ROTC, the expansion of Harvard University, Afro-American Studies, the occupation of University Hall on April 9, the police action on April 10, and the suspension of scholarships.
We as teachers strongly believe that our students must be heard. We as teachers also have a demand: it is that we work together in a rational atmosphere and compassionate spirit. Juan Marichal Samuel Popkin Benjamin I. Schwartz Laurence Wylie Martin Peretz Robert A. Rothstein William Paul Ezra F. Vogel Barrington Moore Jr. Daniel Seltzer Raymond Siever Stephen Jay Gould John Womack Jr. Roy M. Hofheinz James S. Ackerman Lance C. Buhl I. Bernard Cohen Leon Kirchner Neil Harris James R. Kurth Harry Levin Doris Kearns John M. Cooper Stanley Hoffman Daniel Field Robert Jervis John Rawis Max Krook John Raduer George Wald R. A. Cone Daniel Horowitz Kenneth J. Arrow Roger Rosenblatt Micheal Walzer Robert G. Gardner Morton White Owen Gingerich Roy J. Glauber Martin Karplus Gerals Holton Sydney Colemana Mark Ptashne Roderick Firth Gwilym Owen Earl Kim Stanley Cavell Paul Cocks Francis Hutchins Alex Inkeles Thomas E. Crooks J. D. Watson Y. C. Ho Robert P. Burden Richard Cone Ralph Mitchell Howard C. Rachlin John Raper George Fix Nathaniel Carleton Abraham Flexer Peter Persham James C. Thomson Johan Hellebust Myron B. Fiering Charles F. Cleland Wassily Leontief Steve J. Poulos Ronald W. P. King J. R. Mcintosh Basur Rama Rao Lloyd A. Spielman Peter Hepler A. K. Solomon Henry Ehrenreich R. P. Levine Eric Carlson Alexander Dalgarno David R. Walters Carter Wilson Charles A. Whitney Richard McCray William Alfred Charles W. Burnham Charles G. Gross Gerald M. Platt Howard B. Emmons D. A. Harnett Irving J. Rein Peter S. McKinney Carp; S. Deppe Michael Fried John W. Hutchinson Patrica L. Foster Charles S. Maier Thomas D. Wegmann Francisco Varela D. W. Del Tredici Joseph P. Manson David V. Cross H. B. Fell T. J. Shankland Hildur Colot David Kendrick R. Z. Kothavala Richard Geody Curtis Callan Rorrest J. Robinson Werner Stumm Philip Stewart Karl V. Testor R. Victor Jones Paul Roazen Patrick T. Riley Stephen Benton J. F. Hayes Harry P. Kerr N. Bloemberger James R. H. Karl C. Diller I. J. Dan Ziger Hightower Fotis C. Kafatos