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The Faculty of the School of Education voted at a special meeting yesterday to deplore President Pusey's use of police to evacuate University Hall.

By a vote of 50 to 13 the Faculty, in addition to condemning Pusey's decision, said that it "deeply regrets the President's failure to consult with the Faculty or students prior to calling the police."

Also included in the adopted resolution was a statement of "determined opposition to coercive efforts to disrupt the orderly processes and exercise of the University." This was as close as the group came to condemning the occupation of University Hall.

The Faculty voted down, 35-19, a proposal to "express our lack of confidence in the President's ability to deal with these problems in the future." A resolution supporting the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' joint condemnation of the occupation and the polce raid was also defeated.

Several students attended the meeting, at the invitation of Theodore R. Sizer, dean of the Ed School. They included members of the School's Student Cabinet, the president of its Black Students Union, the chairman of its Colloquium Board, and the co-chairman of the Harvard Educational Review.

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"The Faculties are a significant part of the governing structure of this University," Sizer said at the meeting. "They have a profound responsibility to lead, not just to react, but to stand up and be counted, irrespective of the plaudits of the crowd," he added.

The Faculty will meet again at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow to consider such issues as punishment for the University Hall demonstrators and changes in University decision-making.

Ed School Community Meets

In other action yesterday, a general meeting of the Ed School community--including about 250 students, Faculty, and staff members--endorsed three of the specific SDS-Afro strike demands.

The group voted to demand the termination of present ROTC contracts and no new contracts, the replacement of ROTC scholarships with other aid, and the rollback of rents in Harvard-owned apartments to the level of January 1, 1968.

The Ed School community, which voted down Tuesday a blanket endorsement of the eight strike demands, has now gone on record in a favor of four of those demands. The group decided Tuesday to ask total criminal and academic amnesty for all participants in the University Hall takeover.

Yesterday's community meeting also voted, almost unanimously, to "condemn the decision of the Corporation and President Pusey to violate the spirit of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences decision on ROTC."

The group will reconvene in Longfellow Hall at 11 a.m. today to discuss changes in the governance of the Ed School and in its MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) program, University expansion, and other matters.

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