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There may not have been blood on the dinners of benefactors at the Fogg--as protesters said in their chants--but there was and is a wound in the community...
...disturbing--about the whole thing was that both sides got what they wanted. Protesters of Harvard's investment policy put themselves, if not their cause, in the headlines. On that freezing night in late November, police cleared the protesters--not violently, but calmly--from the steps of the Fogg Art Museum like so much snow blocking guests from the entryway. The University held its dinner...
...when both sides win, it is time to question the context of their separate triumphs. The arrest of protesters blockading a dinner for benefactors at the Fogg was the first time since the takeover of University Hall in 1969 that Harvard arrested students. That violent, unprepared-for event came as a shock to Harvard--a sudden blow that engendered a long period of self-questioning. The arrests last month--performed like a perfunctory chore--were by comparison narrow tactical gains, their success a non-success...
STUDENT PROTESTERS clashed with police at Lowell House in the spring of '85. And again at the 350th celebration at Memorial Hall. And again on the steps of the Fogg Art Museum last month. In only the last of those instances--the one which could be characterized as the least volatile of the three--did the University decide to have students arrested. Yet the Administration maintains that the arrests at the Fogg involved no "significant policy changes...
...fact that the Fogg incident did not involve the same escalation of tension and violence underscores the contingency of the decision to arrest. Why at the Fogg? Why not at Lowell and Memorial Hall--when the heat was really...