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Faculty Group Supports Protest

We believe the American war Vietnam to be immoral and
unjust. The spectacle of the greatest military power in the world
unleashing ever-increasing violence upon a small and backward
Asian country is unconscionable. The conduct of the American
government in Vietnam is an outrageous abuse of power that
violates our democratic traditions and threatens to under
the moral foundations of our social order. In the name of peace,
we are creating a desert and inviting a world conflagration.

As free men in a democratic society, we believe it is our
right — and our duty — to protest against the actions of a government
'that defies' world opinion and seems increasingly unresponsive
to the growing dissent expressed in Congress and by
its own citizens. We believe that it is in the finest traditions of
American democracy and patriotism to take effective political
action to oppose this war that is destroying the Vietnam nation
and taking the lives of countless Americans.

Many students and faculty members of the University of
Virginia will be going to Washington on Saturday, October 21 —
by bus and by car — to peacefully express our opposition and
our indignation. We urge those who share our sense of outrage
to participate in a peaceful and legal manner in this demonstration
of protest. Buses to Washington will leave from the Rotunda
at 7 a.m. and will return to Charlottesville Saturday evening.

The Vietnamese war poses the greatest moral challenge of
our times. We cannot remain silent.

Maurice Meisner, Associate Professor of History

Richard J. Coughlin, Professor of Sociology

Walter Hauser, Associate Professor of History

Edward Winter, Professor of Anthropology

Hugh S. Plunkett, Acting Asst. Professor of Anthropology

William Watson, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology

Kenneth Ross, Instructor in Sociology

William Harbaugh, Professor of History

Charles Vandersee, Assistant Professor of English

Joseph Ke, Assistant Professor of History

Fred Vallianos, Instructor in Education

S. J. Makielski, Jr., Asst. Professor of Government and
Foreign Affairs

Lewis Bowman, Asst. Professor of Government and Foreign
Affairs

Floyd Anderson, Asst. Professor of Speech and Drama

Alan Ritter, Asst. Professor of Government and Foreign
Affairs