ED SCHOOL ACTION

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Two votes taken at the Graduate School of Education Thursday faculty meeting, and unreported in the CRIMSON, seem sufficiently noteworthy to bring to the attention of the Harvard community.

The faculty voted-as a faculty and not in "convocation"-to send representatives to Washington, who would convey the faculty's opposition to the Southeast Asian adventures. It also voted to request that the Corporation place in escrow withholding taxes of consenting employees, refusing to pay these taxes to the government until American troops had withdrawn from Cambodia.

To be sure, both actions are symbolic. A decision made by the President, without the advice, consent, of even knowledge of Cabinet or Congress, will not be affected by even the most ardent lobbying. The Harvard Corporation is unlikely to take the requested act of civil disobedience of withholding tax dollars from the government. Yet symbols do matter, in so for as they convey the desperation, and the sense of political impotence, felt by the faculty of the Graduate School of Education.