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...University of Wisconsin totters today on the brink of what may be its biggest student revolt since early last Fall, when over 1000 students clashed with Madison police in a Dow Chemical protest which left 65 students injured...
...election protest today, however, has become only a part of a larger protest against a return Dow visit on Thursday and Friday. If enough support can be mobilized, students will seize an administrative building on Thursday and hold it in a "non-obstructive way" until Dow leaves the campus...
...election, the Dow issue, and now this Cardinal thing are all linked," Greg A. Graze, Editor-in-Chief of the Cardinal said yesterday. "It has come down to a question of where power lies in the University and where it is being exerted...
...come to believe that the first task of any academy is to uphold man's right to isolate himself. "A university can promote many things beside the intellectual enterprise," he says. "But I worry the moment it starts to abandon that enterprise for any reason." Barricading the Dow recruiter last year seemed to him a threatening disruption of the rules of liberal fair play. He is willing, however, to be as critical of the Right as of the Left. He has no truck for those parlour libertarians who find SDS rhetoric "ominously ambiguous" and General Hershey's announcements merely "impolitic...
After breakfast, before the bus tour, one Dow scientist gave a 20-minute lecture on Dow's plastics business -- "growing at a much faster rate than industry as a whole." Sitting through that discourse on the multifarious uses of polystyrene, I realized how Benjamin Braddock must have felt. He, at least, had had the good fortune of receiving his advice in a single word...