Word: coxes
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Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, yesterday told a panel of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) that "self-deception" had caused him to think that he could quiet the crowd at the March 26 "Counter Teach-In" in Sanders Theatre by addressing them...
...know who your "sources" are, but I did talk to Mr. Cox about the teach-in, as did four other SJP members. In addition to making clear that we could expect no more protection than last time, and in particular that the University would not undertake to check bursar's cards and confiscate bull-horns at the door of the that-tre, Mr. Cox suggested that closed circuit TV might be a good medium for the whole event. Considerable informal pressure was also brought to bear on us by the administration...
...conversations with administrators including Dean Epps and Archibald Cox, I learned that the protection issue-which SJP claims was pivotal-never came into discussion between SJP and the administration. Epps put it generously: "It must have been an unstated premise" that the University could not offer "the kind of protection SJP wanted." What kind of protection did SJP want? Nobody could answer that...
Laszlo Pasztor, SJP co-chairman, told me Monday that "no specific protection question was raised." He went on to explain that "since we only had two speakers [one of whom said Monday that he had not accepted] it didn't seem worth their while to hold the teach-in." Cox said the only vague reference to protecting a second teach-in came after a meeting about the Counter Teach-In disruption, when he suggested that SJP return (which they never did) "because we have a lot of things to talk about." According to Cox, checking bursar's cards and confiscating...
Since the purpose of a teach-in is to present various speakers' views, I thought it significant that only one speaker admitted to accepting SJP's invitation. Additionally, Cox implied-as did several other administration people-that a dearth of adequate speakers was the primary issue involved in your cancellation...