Word: hoppenstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their appalling excuse for a "call to act" tried to subordinate what Hoppenstein stands for to the issue of "free speech." Despite this attempt by SASC leadership to put forward a do-nothing strategy, the Spartacus Youth League's call to "Keep the Butchers Off Campus" intersected the anger of militants who joined us and converged on Lowell House to protest the outrage of Hoppenstein's presence...
...Once Hoppenstein arrived, Conservative Club members locked him into the Lowell JCR, keeping other students out, in yet another act of provocation. Following the lead of the SYL, student protesters decided that Hoppenstein should gain the experience of thousands of Black and white South Africans jailed in hell-hole prisons. Linking arms in silent protest, the students formed a blockade, planning to make Hoppenstein sweat until at least midnight...
Despite their attempt squash this militancy, the SASC/DSA leadership were dragged, like stubborn burros, into the protest, trying their best all the while to neutralize it. But students didn't respond to their calls to debate Hoppenstein or to form "three committees" to help dissolve the blockade...
...clear that the University was ready and willing to use as much force as necessary to crush student protesters: Deans Fox and Epps and Vice President Steiner looked on, as police smashed through Hoppenstein was smuggled out through the food tunnels. It was appropriate for this racist rat to take the path of the rodents who frequent the tunnels...
...Crimson, University officials and student conservatives have attempted to turn Hoppenstein's visit into an issue of "free speech," the sanctity of "free ideas" on a University campus, and University investment policy...