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...openness--"it was really something good to see, a lot of people walking around talking to each other"--and the "strikingly orderly way" the strike meetings went, 11,000 people following parliamentary procedure--"which was especially important because the justification for calling the police was to preserve order." The Bust brought moderates like Epstein to accept in even larger part than they had before the radicals' criticism of what they saw as the university's false cloak of orderly neutrality--and it made them join the Strike to try to get the university, if not in active opposition to what...
...destruction of University Road apartments for construction of the Kennedy School of Government.12When the police made their Bust, the first thing they did was to herd reporters and photographers into a single room so they could not watch the subsequent action. This was the last picture Crimson photographer Tim Carison was able to take of the Bust...
...April 9--the day of the University Hall Occupation--the Standing Committee issued its "tentative proposal for concentration in Afro-American Studies to prospective concentrators. Two days later, just following the Bust, Afro officially allied itself with the SDS Strike position and issued a statement charging the University with "purposely violating its agreement to establish a meaningful" Afro-American studies program. The Standing Committee's tentative proposal included a requirement that concentrators specialize in an "allied field." This joint-concentration requirement--more than anything else--angered the Afro leadership, and in the highly charged and militant atmosphere that followed...
...April 13, the Standing Committee, sensitized by the occupation and the Bust, reversed its position on joint-concentration and eliminated the requirement in a revised proposal. But Afro was not to be soothed. The membership concluded that the Standing Committee was "out of touch" with the needs and desires of black students, and on April 14--the day of the Soldiers Field Strike meeting--Afro demanded that the Standing Committee be dissolved and replaced by a new committee composed of equal numbers of students and faculty...
JUDGING FROM ITS subsequent behavior, the Faculty was not altogether pleased about accepting the Afro proposals. In retrospect it is clear that the demands were accepted only because of the extraordinary conditions under which they were considered. After the Bust and the Soldiers Field Strike vote, the Faculty recognized that it would somewhere and sometime need to make some concessions to radicalism. The decision to give students a voice in hiring faculty and in running a department was the most significant of any concessions the Faculty made. That this should be the case is no accident: the Faculty, predominantly white...