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...protestors voted at about 6 p.m. o free the Dow representative, Frederick Leavitt, and he was promptly ushered through the crowd and out of the building by a dean, a senior tutor, and an assistant senior tutor. The vote came shortly after Dean Glimp--speaking from the midst of the seated, close-packed crowd--promised that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would "discuss the issue you have raised here...
...issue, he said, was whether the University should discriminate in deciding which groups--civilians or military--are allowed to recruit Harvard students. The demonstrators argued that any corporation guilty of war crimes and partner to genocide--in this case, Dow--had no right to come on the Harvard campus...
Meanwhile, Leavitt was replaced in Conant 233 by Peter Boer. Boer, it was reported, was another Dow recruiter working in shifts with Leavitt. When no interviewees showed up to see Boer at 233, the demonstrators decided he was a decoy and sent scouts to find Leavitt. They found him at 11 a.m. conducting an interview in the building next to Conant--Mallinckrodt M-102. In seconds, the whole demonstration moved to that door and Leavitt was trapped inside for the rest...
...demonstrators questioned Leavitt aggressively on napalm, Dow, and the war, until one protestor shouted, "Quit badgering him." Leavitt, a research chemist himself, said he didn't know enough about the war or Dow's policies to answer the questions. After a five-minute confrontation, he and Vanelli disappeared back into the conference room...
...executive committee of Harvard Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society voted Monday night to picket Dow. They specifically rejected a sit-in, however. The demonstration got started when a few individuals, mostly SDSers, decided to sit-in anyway. Only about onehalf of the students who sat in at the peak of the demonstration were members...