Word: hoppenstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read with great interest your article about the protest events surrounding the speaking appearance of Abe Hoppenstein at Lowell House in the Friday. May 3 edition of The Crimson...
While a violent confrontation certainly deserves coverage. The Crimson missed the real story by focusing exclusively on the protests and ignoring other events. The real reason for Hoppenstein's visit to Harvard, a speech at the Institute of Politics Forum, got only one line and the real significance of his visit no mention at all. What's the real story? Hoppenstein's appearance at the ARCD Forum of Public Affairs on Wednesday evening, represented the first time in recent history that a member of the South African government sat at the same public platform with a member of the African...
...University officials confirmed, the protestors offered extreme physical violence to Mr. Hoppenstein in pushing and grabbing him, and attempting to drag him to the round. There is no telling what the frenzied protestors might have done had they succeeded in knocking the Consul down...
...point Mr. Hoppenstein requested to be able to address the crowd in the vestibule. Our club president went out to communicate this offer to the crowd, but the mob shouted him down...
...Crimson reporting gave the impression that the protesters succeeded in delaying Mr. Hoppenstein for a period of time. This is not true in the least. The consul General was originally scheduled to speak from 12:30 to 2 p.m. The University police made the decision to try to get Mr. Hoppenstein out at 1:15 before more protestors arrived. When this attempt did not succeed, the Consul General returned to the JCR and continued to take questions until he left, at roughly the originally scheduled time...