SFAC DOW RESOLUTION

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I was rather disturbed to read of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council's resolution requesting the postponement of the scheduled (February 23) visit of the Dow Chemical Corporation. Whatever one's feelings about the war, the right of dissent, or the University's recruitment policy, this resolution seems defective on two grounds. First, it singles out one business corporation for special action while ignoring other corporations which recruit here and are also involved in the war effort. Second, it represents a partial prejudgment of the question of recruitment at Harvard at a time when the Council is just beginning to address itself to that question.

My own preference would be to leave the present open recruitment policy in effect until a satisfactory alternative has been formulated. If the Council wishes to pass a resolution on this matter, however, the appropriate request would seem to be this: that all recruitment at Harvard be postponed for some specified period while the Council is considering the general problem of recruitment policy. Unlike the Council's resolution, this request would be non-discriminatory and it would leave room for a free and unprejudiced discussion of the full range of issues now before the Council. Richard T. Gill '48   Master of Leverett House