Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Upon learning of his plans to speak in Lowell House, a diverse group of students spontaneously chose to protest his presence. Our was that it would be gross neglect of civic duty to knowingly allow a spokesperson for racial supremacy to be welcomed into our community without a presentation of deepest outrage. How is one to express that conviction? Which means of action are open to students confronted with the responsibility to protest...
...Some chose, first, to make his entry difficult, but not impossible, by placing their bodies in his path. Later, after he had spoken, we chosen to blockade his exit. We were committed in spirit as well as in word to non-violence. The police at the door heard and acknowledged the commitment. This was the situation; among the 200 present, about a dozen were standing in the loyer with arms linked, passively, before the door to the ICR. We had no possibility of conferring or denying rights. Between the South African Consul General and the Lowell House courtyard stood only...
What was the University's administration's response? Instead of allowing the issue to be areued before a court of law. Harvard police chose a response consonant with that of the South African police. Without warning they charged out of the door pushing aside grabbing elbowing choking and trampling protesters. Although we had unhesitatingly let out Conservative Club members, remaining ones joined the police in the charge, as did unmarked, unidentified security people. What is the motivation for that sort of behavior? Who initiated this violence...
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...disgusted and angered by the events that took place at Howell House today. We are disgusted that the Conservative Club chose to honor a representative of the universally abhorred South African government at a luncheon, and we are angered that contrary to earlier promises made by the Conservative Club president, the post-luncheon discussion was not open to people who wished to attend (the protesters stated that they did not intend to disrupt the speaker...