Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Student Co-ordinating Committee for Freedom in Vietnam, walked to the microphone and began baiting the crowd. He offered to relinquish the microphone to any member of the crowd who wanted to speak, and got two takers. While the second held the microphone, Harvard police chief Robert Tonis approached Cox and warned him that some members of the small crowd outside had broken a firedoor and were attempting to force their way into the Theatre. Cox then asked McCarty to end the meeting. The speakers made their way out of Sanders Theatre through the steam tunnels and the Teach...
...aftermath was prolonged, however. Immediately after the meeting broke up, Cox told reporters that the University would discipline every person it could identify as a disrupter. The next day, the Faculty Council unanimously approved a strongly-worded statement condemning the disruption and calling for disciplinary action against those responsible. President Pusey and President Designate Bok issued similar statements...
While it prepared its cases, the Administration sent its top representatives-Dean May, Dean Dunlop, Cox, and Bok-around the Houses to explain to students why, in their view, the disruption had been an intolerable violation of the right of free speech which demanded punishment if Harvard was to be preserved as an academic community in which the rights of all could be observed. They had an casier time of it than they might have expected: the student body, for the most part, agreed that the disruption had been unacceptable.0
...protect it from disruption. SJP co-chairman Laszlo Pasztor '73 charged administrators with "malice" and further charged that the Administration had made it impossible to hold the teach-in because it refused to provide police to check bursar's cards and confiscate bullhorns at the entrance to Sanders Theatre. Cox replied that the issue had never been raised. Some observers felt that SJP's failure to recruit speakers-only one had agreed to appear-might have been the actual reason for the cancellation...
...item remains ominously outstanding on the Teach-in ledger. Cox had hinted that action might be taken against an "unnamed Faculty member" and said that if he felt it was necessary he would bypass the new Faculty discipline procedures being hammered out by the Faculty and take the case directly to the Corporation. He took no action during the Spring...