ON DOW: TO THE DEMONSTRATORS

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

People opposed to this country's action in Vietnam, including our use of napalm, could express themselves most convincingly in a large orderly demonstration on the occasion of the Dow recruiter's visit. In number, people opposed to the war exceed those who are united on any single position with regard to campus recruitment, student power, or the draft; they also exceed those willing to join in obstructing the recruiter. The amount of serious support at Harvard for any stand will be judged according to the number (not vociferousness) of those who take it. A non-obstructing, massive anti-war demonstration is our strongest card, and if the more radical will settle for it, we can play it. However, if an ambiguous, fragmented demonstration like the last one occurs, the anti-war movement will lose, not gain, some of the serious attention it ought to have from persons not already convinced. Leonard Rieser '70