Word: dows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VARIETY of visceral reasons the Faculty will probably be tempted to punish severely the students who sat in at Paine Hall. Some will quickly lump the R.O.T.C. demonstration with those against Robert McNamara and the Dow Chemical Company and conclude that this sort of thing can't be allowed to happen year after year. Others will be particularly offended because this Fall it was the Harvard Faculty, not unknown outsider like Dow's Mr. Leavit, whose usual business was interrupted...
...meeting was cancelled so early, the students can be charged with preventing the Faculty from meeting only in a very shaky symbolic sense. At worst they disobeyed an order from Dean Glimp. That is an offense, but a milder and different one than physically blocking the movement of a Dow recruiter. It therefore merits milder, not more severe, punishment than the probation slapped on those who sat in at Malinckrodt--either admonition or no punishment at all. Expelling the demonstrators from the Harvard community (subjecting them immediately to the draft as well) would be entirely out of proportion...
...Paine Hall began as a protest against ROTC, and as such it will likely prove to have been a failure. The sit-in did not succeed in dramatizing the political issues involved in ROTC's presence here. And its aftermath, like the aftermath of last year's demonstration against Dow, will inevitably shift attention away from political issues altogether, and towards the more mundane administrative questions of punishments and proprieties...
Another backer of the YPSL referndum plan, Henry D. Fetter '71, said that a confrontation similar to the Dow demonstration of last year could result if student opinion is not channeled into peaceful means of expression. He concluded with a prediction that "democracy will prevail...
More Sophisticated. For all the difficulties ahead, in fact, Nixon's presidential victory was generally well received by businessmen both at home and abroad. At last week's New York Stock Exchange closing, the Dow-Jones index of 30 industrial stocks had climbed to 965.88, up 19.65 since Election Day. And the spurt, noted Ralph Creasman, president of the Lionel D. Edie & Co. investment counseling firm, would have been bigger except that "we'd already absorbed," discounted and anticipated a Nixon victory." Indeed, since the so-called "Nixon market" began its surge in August, the stock market...