Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formal dispute originated when the Association for Student Activities (ASA) at MIT asked the Provost, Walter Rosenblith, to revoke permission for the event because some of the advertising for the event failed to bear the logo of "MIT Seekers'," the official sponsors. The posters bore only the imprint of "Jews for Jesus," a movement not recognized at MIT, according to Louis Menard, special assistant to the Provost, who cited both technical and moral grounds for cancelling the event...
...also claimed that the evangelistic nature of the event would violate a longstanding agreement at MIT that no religious group engage in missionary activity in an organized way among the members of any other religious group. Menand stated in a letter to the "MIT Seekers...
Menand heads the Facilities Use Committee, which reviewed the issue and then recommended the cancellation of the event. The committee then invited the "MIT Seekers" to reschedule the event "for a date and place to be agreed upon by the Seekers and the Facilities Use Committee," Menand said. A representative of "Jews for Jesus" said the speakers who traveled to MIT probably would not be able to return at a later date...
...could not halt a string of four straight defeats, including two losses to Penn's Paul Frieberg, who won the event, and Cornell's Jeff Estabrook, who tied for second in the preliminaries...
...Geoff is a very level-headed consistent performer in an event categorized by erratic performances," Stowell said...