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...April 9, a group of about 300 pro-SDS demonstrators occupied University Hall, in an effort to publicize the SDS demands. The police bust that then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered the next day expanded the scope of protest beyond the range of what had originally been thought of as a relatively small group of radicals; the repulsion felt by moderates among both students and faculty fueled the student strike that followed, and generated intense support for most of the protesters' demands, including those of Afro. The April 14 mass meeting in Soldiers' Field, which extended the strike...
...resolution gave the liberals their basic platform, and marked the Faculty's division into liberal and conservative camps. Although the bust precipitated the split, the caucuses focused on distinct differences in principle and tactics, Hoffmann says. "The conservatives seemed to us to be saying we have to defend authority even if authority was stupid. One conservative insisted on supporting Pusey even though he said to me, 'Pusey is like Louis XVI, except that Louis listened to his advisers.' But the liberals argued nothing good would come of unqualified support. When the president and administration make mistakes there is no reason...
...first overt politicking centered around the emergency Faculty meeting called for April 11, the day after the bust. Both caucuses had drawn up resolutions: the conservatives condemned the students while the liberals condemned the administration, and called for a committee to investigate the underlying causes of the occupation. At this first meeting, the liberals won a substantive victory through a compromise, which combined the conservative preamble with the substantive suggestions of the liberals--a new elective committee that "withdrew Faculty power from the president," James C. Thomson, then a junior faculty member and tutor at Leverett House, says...
...April of 1969 the substance of that voting--in one complicated parliamentary form or another--came down to what the Faculty believed was more significant: the students' seizure of University Hall or the police bust. The conservative caucus was split on the bust ("Some of us believe it was unwise. Some of us believe it was unavoidable though regrettable," one of their resolutions read), but all its members agreed that the overriding issue was the SDS's unwarranted seizure of a University building...
...agrees, but condemns the subsequent bust as well. "The occupation of the building was a decision by a minority and there was a tactical question about the administration response. My business is looking back at decisions and I can readily see it turned out to be the wrong decision." Pipes, however, says then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 handled the situation "courageously though clumsily," adding that the administration "should have called police before they (SDS) went...