Committee Seeks to Halt Recruitment on Campus

An unofficial committee in the Behavioral Sciences departmnt endorsed a resolution yesterday calling for the university to suspend all on-campus military recruitment until the directive of selective Service head Lewis B. Hershey is reversed.

Hershey, the resolution reads, has 'persisted' in recommending that draft-eligible men who participate in protest activities should be liable to reclassification.

84 per cent of the members present and voting at yesterday's meeting of the Behavioral Sciences Student-Faculty Committee on Vietnam approved the suspension resolution. Further endorsements are now being collected.

The committee will send a copy of the resolution to the first meeting of the Studen Faculty Advisory Council this Friday. If the SFAC does not draft a similar resolution, a faculty member from the Behavioral Sciences committee will present yesterday's resolution at the next faculty meeting.

The present resolution came out of a sub-committee formed to examine the Hershey statements and to recommend appropriate actions to be taken by the committee as a whole.

The resolution also charges that the continued presence of military recruiters on campus will be a tacit sign of the University's complicity in situations which endanger constitutional rights.

Frank Sampson, a lecturer in the Social Relations Department and a member of the committee which drafted the resolution, said that Hershey's statements have brought "wide-spread criticism from people not only concerned with Vietnam."

Other universities--Yale and Columbia--have made some decision, he said; "Harvard needs to express itself on the matter."

Sampson said the University should be involved because "its life depends upon the constitutionally guaranteed rights of free expression of ideas." Sampson also said last night that the committee was "at a loss to know why the President of Harvard hasn't made a statement."