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While the week was punctuated with violence, these were usually encounters between Madison police--"first that Dow thing, now this. Let's take a few of them with us"--and white radicals. The National Guard appeared to be having fun playing army for a week. The units Governor Knowles called in were almost exclusively from farm areas -- there was only one unit from Milwaukee, Wisconsin's only center of black population. They could not hold a formation and they were soon bored by all the marching around...
Last year the Faculty voted against penalizing Dow Chemical demonstrators who were receiving financial...
...have, of course, gone through all this before. After the demonstration against the Dow Chemical Company in October, 1967, the Faculty intervened to protect scholarship recipients and seated a demonstrator who had been elected to the SFAC. It is likely that the Faculty will make the same decisions again...
...that such decisions should have to be made at all underscores the irrationality of the Administration's disciplinary approach to political demonstrations. Sitting in against Dow or ROTC has far different import than cheating on exams or stealing from the Coop. It is not helpful or even possible to treat political demonstrators in the same way as cheaters or shoplifters. Dean Peterson argued at last Tuesday's Faculty meeting that to exempt the Paine Hall demonstrators from scholarship reduction would create an unfair distinction between political and non-political probations...
...designed to fall hardest on the neediest students, it seems clear enough that there are real distinctions to be made between such utterly different types of action as cheating and sitting-in. The Faculty has felt it necessary to consider so many "special" problems in the aftermath of the Dow and Paine Hall punishments simply because these punishments are inappropriate responses to the political activities they seek to deter...