Watergate: What faculty members say.

"I wouldn't mind Agnew as President. I also probably wouldn't mind if Nixon were impeached....The Watergate affair will probably drag on, with a decline of confidence in the Administration and with a guerrilla war between Congress and the Administration....Watergate is oddly different from other scandals in the past. There is little evidence of venality....The point, which is really a question, is whether our culture sustains any shared values too sacred to be compromised -- any shared standards of behavior, violations of which simply will not be tolerated.

From a news story on faculty opinion, quoting Professors Samuel Beer, William Schneider, Ernest May, James Q. Wilson, Raoul Berger, Graham T. Allison Jr., and others.

Watergate: What students say.

Jamie Galbraith thinks that the Watergate scandal is not a major crisis, but a major rehabilitation. Beryl Ikeda says that McGovern would never do something like Watergate. Julius Kearney has felt for a year that Nixon gave his approval to the bugging of Democratic headquarters. Doug Schoen thinks that Nixon knew what was going on, and that Jeb Magruder said as much in a speech at the Institute of Politics. Wally Schwartz points out that there are still millions of people left who are proud to be Republicans.

From Career objective: Politician, by Michael Bernick '74, which shows that Watergate has had no dampening effect on the aspirations of five of Harvard's best and brightest.

Kilson on blacks

The sharp differentiation of Negroes as a sub-community within white Harvard, and the gnawing ambivalence of loyalty experienced by Negro students who feel forced to choose between their differentiated black sub-community and Harvard in general, have combined to have a nearly disastrous impact on the academic achievement and intellectual growth of Negro students.

From Blacks at Harvard: Solutions and prospects, by Martin Kilson, Ph.D. '59, professor of government.

Blacks on Kilson.

In his haste to play the role of the omniscient Negro scholar, the professor has descended to a level of reportage suggestive of the grossest kind of journalistic and scientific irresponsibility. ...He genuinely believes, it seems, that there is no significance in cultural blackness unless it apes or imitates white cultural norms every step of the way....There is a chauvinism in these beliefs that is both obvious and despicable.

From Kilson's contentions: A reply, by black students and a faculty member.

"Where are you likely to spend eternity?"

The test of a good counter-questionnaire is the individuality of the answers that it elicits - first prize going to the lady who answered the question, "Where are you likely to spend eternity?" with the simple statement of despair: "In Worcester."

From an article by Adam Yarmolinsky '43, reporting the results of his own investigations into the attitudes of classmates and others.