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There is, of course, a fine line between civil disobedience and civil disorder, but the protesters at 17 Quincy Street were careful to stay on the right side of that line. They did not attempt to disrupt business, and they left peacefully at 5 p.m. as they had promised. By their presence they focused attention on the Corporation's insulation from the University community and demonstrated that there is a concrete as well as a moral cost to Harvard's continued inaction on the South Africa issue...
...views through a sit-in because there is no procedure through which members of the Harvard community outside the Corporation can have a say in our university's polices. We will spend the day reading about and discussing the problems of South Africa. We are not going to disrupt business in any way beyond our presence in the building. We do not undertake this action lightly, but rather with the knowledge that 13 years of intransigence and unresponsiveness on the part of the Corporation have left us no other choice. Statement from Corporation Secretary Robert Shenton, the University official responsible...
Construction of the new Central Square subway station will disrupt parts of Western Ave. and Massachusetts Ave. inevitably causing traffic rerouting and sidewalk inconveniences for Central Square patinas...
...even as the recruiting figures are rising--the rate of job inquiries has more than doubled since the early 1970s--so are protests over the presence of CIA representatives on campus. Last week 450 demonstrators were arrested at the University of Colorado in Boulder as they attempted to disrupt the interviews...
...recently transplanted to Merrymount, Conn., is from Backbone, Ark., where a scarcity of cultural opportunity has sharpened perceptions of social reality. "The trouble with treating people as equals," he says, "is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you. Such reprisals seriously disrupt the pecking order, especially in a democracy where the class distinctions are so much more finely balanced than in other systems...