Word: dows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professor aptly stated during the Dow discussions, "The University is a hyperheaded thing if not a monster." No one can speak or act for it in a political fashion, and this reality is frustrating to direct-action reformists...
...Dow protest, which demonstrated the value of a loose administrative structure, also illustrated the difficulty of predicting what issues will be provocative enough to generate students' use of force. The protest against University "war complicity" was definitely secondary to opposition against the destructive war itself...
Because there was no deep split on a University issue over Dow, the student use of force can be attributed to the University's failure to clarify in advance what its sanctions were. Yet even now, the Administration does not want to define the limits of protests and their consequences because it would rather rely on students memory than on tight rules that may backfire when students collect together out of strong feelings. Therefore, as memories fade, a new crisis may arise...
Harvard is not under pressure to change its system of government for the sake of change. Most students have given no indication that the University structure should be rebuilt, and no students--not even the "red-hot radicals" have demonstrated any tendency since Dow to step beyond their rhetoric on campus matters
...Committee was originally set up following an irregular and bitter demonstration by students in October protesting the recruiting activities at Harvard of an officer of the Dow Chemical Company, which makes napalm. The disruption and confusion that accompanied that incident made it clear that there was an urgent need for discussion between students and the University Establishment on political issues related to the University...