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...furious anti-apartheid protestors flowed into the Lowell House courtyard upon learning that South African Consul-General Abe S. Hoppenstein was speaking to the Conservative Club. Protestors linked arms to create a human barricade, chanting “Conservative Club, what do you say? Would you invite...
Police eventually held back the crowds to relocate Hoppenstein, which resulted in 20 students filing charges of police brutality...
...rally quickly dissolved into chaos as student organizers lost control of non-Harvard protestors who joined the demonstration. The sound of shattering glass reverberated through the courtyard, panicking the crowds gathered there. According to an article written at the time, students blockaded Hoppenstein in the Lowell House Common Room for several hours to give him “the experience of thousands of Black and white South Africans jailed in hell-hole prisons...
...addition, I suspect that the Conservative Club's hibernation--which, incidentally, dates from 1987, not 1985--resulted from the graduation of its most committed members rather than from a backlash against the Hoppenstein invitation, as your "news" article asserts. The club members whom I knew always enjoyed a good backlash, which perhaps accounts for their choice of speakers. Caleb Nelson...
...campus. The drama inherent in this history almost makes one wish it were true, but the real facts are much more pedestrian. The Salient has had no connection with the Conservative Club since 1982. Therefore, while many Salient staff members did oppose the club's invitation of Abe Hoppenstein (and its subsequent sponsorship of a speech by Duke Kent Brown), our opposition was no more significant than that of any other students...