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...problem faced by the adolescent in our culture and its attempt to deal with the adolescent, I would like to discuss a recent incident at Harvard College. On October 25 a group of 300-400 students spontaneously filled Mallinckrodt, the chemistry building, to protest the napalm-making Dow Chemical Company's recruiter being permitted on the campus. Several of these students had participated in the peace march on Washington on October 21, while others had lived vicariously through the stories of the beating and tear-gassing of the marchers by the Army's Military Police. The hysteria on campus resulted...
...protesting group, leaderless but determined (the campus Students for a Democratic Society the night before had voted against any act of civil disobedience), refused to allow the Dow Chemical representative to leave Mallinckrodt until he signed an affidavit promising never to return. He refused good-naturedly, and the students even permitted him to speak without too much uproar. The 6-7 hours that the Dow Chemical man was "imprisoned" saw great student turmoil as it was virtually a constant mass meeting with students voting on all sorts of radical political questions. Along with this intellectual ferment went such ludicrous touches...
...problem and did not understand the extent to which they were facing a problem in our culture in the relationship between generations. This lack of understanding became even more evident when President Pusey issued his Annual Report on the state of the University. In this Report he found the Dow incident disgraceful and said that no one had learned anything of importance from the episode...
...this paper espousing the Dow demonstration, but simply using it as an example to indicate what could be learned. Many faculty members went to that faculty meeting with a greater understanding of their position, not just as teachers but as college administrators. They knew that they would have to vote on a proposition which would involve the degree to which they felt it necessary to police the political activities of the students. These faculty members had to re-appraise their own positions and to re-focus their own concept of themselves as administrators of students' morality. They also...
...adolescent in college today. What are they saying to us when they demonstrate or when they don't; and what are our responsibilities as their teachers? Is it necessary for us to even teach them how to be politically active? What is the most effective protest? This Dow incident took place in a college at a time when the whole concept of the traditional custodial care role of the college is in an uproar and the administrators faced by many complex decisions. The college is an institution which, like so many other such in our modern society...