Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RELEVANT facts of the Kent-Brown protest are clear. Some 40 minutes into the South African diplomat's remarks, 20 members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee rushed toward two of the auditorium's three exists and linked arms. Their goal was to force Kent-Brown out of the hall's front door and into and confrontation with protestors gathered outside the Science Center. Harvard police responded appropriately, breaking the blockade and escorting Kent-Brown from the room...
...visitors' views. But at times proponents of these high-minded principles fail to consider individual situations in a practical and reasonable manner. Citing the necessity of maintaining basic freedoms at an academic institution, many people have condemned protesters for blocking two to three exits of the Science Center auditorium in which Duke Kent-Brown, a South African diplomat, appeared last month. But those who employ such rhetoric to criticize the protesters tend to ignore the legitimate and laudable efforts by protest groups to publicize their views. The community might do well to go beyond basic principles and necessary freedoms that...
...wish to offer alternative views. Just as Duke Kent-Brown has the right to speak, the Black Students Association has the right to heckle, even though heckling makes speaking more difficult. And when members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee blocked two of three exists to the Science Center auditorium, ideally forcing Kent-Brown to exit past demonstrators in the Science Center courtyard, they made movement difficult but by no means impossible. As long as protesters respect the peaceful limitations inherent to civil disobedience, their actions enjoy legitimacy...
seats in the first two rows of the auditorium...
...November of 1986, protesters screaming and writhing on the floor forced the relocation of a speech at the Law School by Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode. Six Harvard policemen escorted Goode out of the auditorium, and officials announced the new location for the speech. Officials excluded the protestors from the new auditorium, and Goode spoke uninterrupted...